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The Feustels
Episode 328
The Feustels. Together, they represent a very broad palette of skills and interests, from geology and geophysics through speech-language pathology an…
6 years, 1 month ago
James W. Rice (planetary geologist)
Episode 327
The head of exploration missions on Mars. He managed exploration rover projects Spirit and Opportunity. He researches the surface of the red planet a…
6 years, 1 month ago
ESO Special
Episode 326
From European Southern Observatory's headquarters, to La Silla, Paranal and Chajnantor. From planet hunter, spectrograph HAARPS, to the most advanced…
6 years, 1 month ago
Yoshinori Ohsumi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or medicine laureate)
Episode 325
A cleanup in the cell without which we wouldn't survive. That's autophagy - a process in which a cell gets ris of it's damaged or unnecessary parts a…
6 years, 1 month ago
Edward "Rocky" Kolb (cosmologist)
Episode 324
It looks like nothing is the mother of us all says professor Edward Kolb - cosmologists and astrophysicist also known by his nickname Rocky. In his r…
6 years, 1 month ago
Sergei Krikalev (former Russian cosmonaut)
Episode 323
He's the man who was there - during the last days of the MIR space station as well as the early days of the International Space Station. He was a mem…
6 years, 1 month ago
Paul Modrich (Nobel Prize for Chemistry laureate)
Episode 322
He described a system that allows our DNA to repair itself, without these constant repairs, we wouldn't survive. Professor Paul Modrich, laureate of …
6 years, 1 month ago
Ben Feringa (Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate)
Episode 321
He builds machines that are thousand times smaller than a width of a hair. And with them he might cause revolution in medicine and in other fields. P…
6 years, 1 month ago
Fabiola Gianotti (director-general of CERN)
Episode 320
As the head of the Atlas detector, she was there when the Higgs boson was detected. As the head of CERN, she decides about the organization's future …
6 years, 1 month ago
Tim De Zeeuw (the director general of ESO)
Episode 319
Seven rocky planet, three of them in the habitable zone and all of them close to Earth. At least from the cosmic point of view. That is the Trappist-…
6 years, 1 month ago