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832: Jumping to Multicellular Life with Dr. William Ratcliff
How did life go from single-celled to multi-celled? Dr. William Ratcliff is an Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in …
4 years, 2 months ago
831: Meteor Storm Update, Boeing Starliner Returns, Refueling Broken Satellites | Space Bites
Boeing finally completes a demo mission, scientists grow plants in lunar regolith, NASA will launch a mission to repair and refuel a satellite, space…
4 years, 2 months ago
830: Who Will Get to Mars First, Black Hole Through Earth, Dinosaurs in Space | Q&A 185
In this week's Questions and Answers show, I explain what James Webb will see when it looks at SgrA*, why black holes happen to be facing towards us,…
4 years, 2 months ago
829: HUGE Upcoming Meteor Storm?, Starliner Success, Nova in Real Time | Space Bites
In this week's News Bites segment, I talk about the successful launch of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner, how astronomers watch a nova unfold in real ti…
4 years, 2 months ago
826: Beaming Power in Space with Dr. Stephen Sweeney
Professor Stephen Sweeney works in the department of physics at the University of Surrey. He specializes in photonics, using lasers and photovoltaics…
4 years, 2 months ago
828: Sending Humans to the Outer Solar System with Dr. Jonathan Jiang
Dr. Jonathan Jiang is the supervisor of the Aerosol and Cloud Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Jiang has contributed over 220 peer-revi…
4 years, 2 months ago
827: The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope with Dr. Ashish Goel
Dr. Ashish Goel is a Research Technologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Robotic Surface Mobility group. He has helped develop the pla…
4 years, 2 months ago
825: Going Back to Venus with Michael Amato
Michael Amato is an engineer at NASA and has been a member of the team behind NASA's DAVINCI spacecraft which will be launching to Venus in 2029. The…
4 years, 2 months ago
824: Cynicism VS Wisdom, How Big Do Black Holes Grow, Sky on Mars | Q&A 184
In this week's episode, I talk about how close to the Sun Parker Solar Probe can get, what is the smallest possible star that's turned into a red gia…
4 years, 2 months ago
823: Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole by EHT, Russia's ISS Bluff, Ingenuity's Problems | Space Bites
We finally have the SgrA* supermassive black hole image by the Event Horizon Telescope, China announces their plans to launch a space telescope, and …
4 years, 2 months ago