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793 Close Space Rock
Travelers In The Night - April 19, 2024 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsPerhaps the most dangerous Amor asteroid is 2006 HZ51 .It was discovered by my team the Catalina Sky Survey. Fortunately the closest 2006 HZ51 will come to our home planet is June 11 of 2116 when it will pass us harmlessly 26 times the distance to our moon away from us.
Water found around a distant star
Radio Astronomy - April 18, 2024 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 23 ratingsAstronomer Stefano Facchini reveals how he and his colleagues found water vapour at a Sun-like star where planets could already be forming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Water found around a distant star
Radio Astronomy - April 18, 2024 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsAstronomer Stefano Facchini reveals how he and his colleagues found water vapour at a Sun-like star where planets could already be forming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A Cheer For The Physics Of Baseball
Science Friday - April 18, 2024 20:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsCollege basketball’s March Madness concluded this week, meaning that now the national sports attention can turn fully to baseball. The next time you’re at the ballpark—whether you’re devoted enough to fill in the box scores by hand, or are just there for the peanuts and crackerjacks—take some t...
Chicken Little Was Right!
Made of Stars - April 18, 2024 16:27 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsNASA has learned the hard way that not everything burns up on rentry. Starliner is a step closer to a test launch in early May. A nova and the "devil comet" are both in the night time sky for viewing. And a massive black hole has been discovered in the Milky Way. Become a supporter of this podc...
Brewer’s Yeast, Constructed Languages, Memory Direction
Curiosity Daily - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratingsToday, you’ll learn about a new plan to use waste from beer brewing to clean metal out of our water supply, a study that puts languages like Orc and Klingon to the test, and a discovery about the direction our memories travel in our brains. Brewer’s Yeast “The same beer waste that gi...
Pat Eudy’s Abduction Saga of 1979 - Do Worms Have Di*ks
But It Was Aliens - April 18, 2024 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 46 ratingsThe extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe . 3am, March, 1979, USA - the details aren’t clear but what can you expect when aliens and memory wiping are involved? Pat Eudy was a 46 year old driving to Monroe who may or may not have been but probably was slabbed and probed. After two years...
Carbon Cost Of Urban Gardens And Commercial Farms | Why There's No Superbloom This Year
Science Friday - April 17, 2024 20:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsSome food has a larger carbon footprint when grown in urban settings than on commercial farms, while for other foods the reverse is true. Also, what’s the difference between wildflowers blooming in the desert each spring, and the rare phenomenon of a “superbloom”? The Carbon Cost Of Urban Garde...
Frostbite Treatment, Blood in Space, Small Classes
Curiosity Daily - April 17, 2024 07:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratingsToday, you’ll learn about a medication that can successfully treat frostbite, the study of bloodsplatter in space, and a surprising finding about the supposed benefits of small class sizes. Frostbite Treatment “The U.S. now has a drug for severe frostbite. How does it work?” by Saugat ...
World Forces Gather at N. Pole
About Space Today - April 17, 2024 04:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsWhat was the real reason that the "World Forces" gathered at the North Pole? Did it have to do with warnings of Admiral Richard Byrd in 1947 of flying saucers? Join David Denault for Special Report.
94- Magic in a Hidden Bag of Stars: The Beehive Cluster
Night Sky Tourist - April 16, 2024 21:13 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsThis episode is a continuation of Episode 93 where I interviewed Linda Åkeson McGurk about her book The Open-Air Life: Discover the Nordic Art of Friluftsliv and Embrace Nature Every Day. Here, I take you on a star tour by telling you a story of how I discovered something new in the night sky wh...
Inside The Race To Save Honeybees From Parasitic Mites
Science Friday - April 16, 2024 20:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsLast year, almost half of the honeybee colonies in the U.S. died, making it the second deadliest year for honeybees on record. The main culprit wasn’t climate change, starvation, or even pesticides, but a parasite: Varroa destructor. “The name for this parasite is a very Transformer-y sounding ...
280E-294-Dangerous Duo
Travelers In The Night - April 16, 2024 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsRecently in the space of 28 hours my Catalina Sky Survey teammates Rose Matheny and Carson Fuls discovered two Potentially Hazardous Asteroids to add to the list of the more than 1700 which asteroid hunters have discovered. Fortunately, none of the Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are currently on...
Voyager 1 Detects Cosmic Hum
About Space Today - April 16, 2024 04:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThe Voyager 1 Spacecraft traveling through interstellar space has detected a mysterious cosmic hum. Join David Denault, as he explores what is the cosmic hum.
The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures - April 15, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratingsWith Dr. Leonard Susskind (Stanford University) Black holes, the collapsed remnants of the largest stars, provide a remarkable laboratory where the frontier concepts of our understanding of nature are tested at their extreme limits. For more than two decades, Professor Susskind and a Dutch colle...
The Brain’s Glial Cells Might Be As Important As Neurons
Science Friday - April 15, 2024 19:59 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsHalf of the cells in the brain are neurons, the other half are glial cells. When scientists first discovered glia over a century ago, they thought that they simply held the neurons together. Their name derives from a Greek word that means glue. In the past decade, researchers have come to unde...
2024, April 20: Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction
When the Curves Line Up - April 15, 2024 01:28 - 6 minutesApril 20, 2024: The Jupiter-Uranus conjunction occurs tonight. Mars and Saturn are visible before sunrise. See the accompanying article - 2024, April 20: Jupiter-Uranus Conjunction --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeffrey-l-hunt/message Support this podca...
2024, April 19: Jupiter Nears Uranus Conjunction
When the Curves Line Up - April 15, 2024 01:07 - 3 minutesApril 19, 2024: After sundown, Jupiter nears a conjunction with planet Uranus. Mars and Saturn are in visible before sunrise. Find the gibbous moon with Leo. See the accompanying article - 2024, April 19: Jupiter Nears Uranus Conjunction --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spot...
2024, April 18: April Leo Moon
When the Curves Line Up - April 14, 2024 23:47 - 4 minutesApril 18, 2024: The evening gibbous moon is with Leo. Mars and Saturn are in the eastern sky before daybreak. Jupiter approaches planet Uranus after sundown. See the accompanying article - 2024, April 18: April Leo Moon --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/j...
S5 E6 The Unexplained Phenomena With Ben Hurle
Encounters Down Under - April 14, 2024 14:01 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBen Hurle joins us on the podcast who is one of Australia's most prominent UFO Researchers and investigators, with years of history in the field. We look into Ben's history on what led him down the path of UFO's and what it takes to be a investigator. Epiosde available on Youtube https://www.y...
Eclipse follow-up
SkyCaramba - April 14, 2024 05:00 - 4 minutesWhat an exciting week that just ended with a total solar eclipse. Red prominences showed in the corona. Why are they that color? And what did scientists learn about the sun by analyzing the corona's spectum?
Star Diary: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches its brightest (15 to 21 April 2024)
Radio Astronomy - April 13, 2024 23:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 23 ratingsComet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun this week, and should be at its brightest. Find out how you can see them for yourself as well as our usual stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 15 to 21 April 2024. Transcript: www.skyatnightmag...
Star Diary: Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches its brightest (15 to 21 April 2024)
Radio Astronomy - April 13, 2024 23:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★ - 18 ratingsComet 12P/Pons-Brooks reaches perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun this week, and should be at its brightest. Find out how you can see them for yourself as well as our usual stargazing highlights in this week’s podcast guide, Star Diary, 15 to 21 April 2024. Transcript: www.skyatnightmag...
Limits On ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water | An Important Winter Home For Bugs | Eclipse Drumroll
Science Friday - April 12, 2024 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 5.1K ratingsA long-awaited rule from the EPA limits the amounts of six PFAS chemicals allowed in public drinking water supplies. Also, some spiders, beetles, and centipedes spend winter under snow in a layer called the subnivium. Plus, a drumroll for the total solar eclipse. EPA Sets Limits On ‘Forever Che...
2024, April 17: April Moon with Regulus
When the Curves Line Up - April 12, 2024 16:54 - 5 minutesApril 17, 2024: After sundown, the bright gibbous moon is near Regulus, Leo’s brightest star. Find Mars and Saturn before sunrise and Jupiter after sunset. See the accompanying article - 2024, April 17: April Moon with Regulus --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/...
2024, April 16: Winter Stars Shift Westward
When the Curves Line Up - April 12, 2024 16:39 - 5 minutesApril 16, 2024: After sundown, the bright winter stars shift westward each night. Bright Jupiter is visible during the evening, while Mars and Saturn appear before sunrise. See the accompanying article - 2024, April 16: Winter Stars Shift Westward --- Send in a voice message: https://podcas...
792-Closest Approaching Comet
Travelers In The Night - April 12, 2024 16:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsP/1999 J6 (SOHO) was discovered 10 May 1995 by Mike Oates as part of the Citizen Science Sun Grazer Project in which volunteers from all over the world have the chance to discover a comet in images taken by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory or SOHO for short.RADAR studies of the daytime Arie...
The Ghost Particle
About Space Today - April 12, 2024 13:30 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThey are from space, they are all around us and they go through us, the Ghost Particles. Now for the first time scientists image Neutrinos. Join David Denault, Executive News Editor with a report that creates more mysteries.
Printed Skin, Mammoth De-Extinction, Learning Happiness
Curiosity Daily - April 12, 2024 07:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 869 ratingsToday, you’ll learn about a skin printer that could lead to scar-free surgeries, the possibility of bringing the wooly mammoth back to life, and how to work at being happy. Printed Skin “Scar-free surgery prints living skin (and maybe hair) right into wounds.” by Paul McClure. 2024. ...
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