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AaS! 223: Why is it So Hard to Return to the Moon?

Ask a Spaceman! - May 07, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratings
If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily? What technology have we lost? What are we trying to do differently? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/spaceman and ge...

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Low-Mass Mania with Emily Rice

StarTalk Radio - April 30, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Could we find life around low-mass stars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice find out why life might be more likely around low-mass stars, what makes brown dwarfs, galactic archeology, and more with astronomer Emily Rice. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commer...

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EarthCARE, Starliner and NASA's George Abbey

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - April 29, 2024 03:39 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham discuss the upcoming ESA EarthCARE mission with scientist Robin Hogan, the status of the BepiColombo mission to Mercury which will arrive at its destination next year and an exclusive as yet unheard interview with NASA legend George Abbey, who died ...

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Stars Talk to Neil – Alien Love

StarTalk Radio - April 26, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
How certain are we about aliens? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer science questions from celebrities like Kevin Hart, Jack White, Nikki Glaser, and more! NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here:  https://startalkmedia.com...

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Rewire Your Brain for Bliss with Dawson Church

Quantum Revolution with Karen Curry Parker - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Ready to reclaim sovereignty over your mind and rewrite your narrative? Join us as we explore simple yet profound practices to combat anxiety and cultivate resilience. “There is all this stuff that can stress us out and we can have these high levels of anxiety and depression.  But if we take...

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Rewire Your Brain for Bliss with Dawson Church

Quantum Revolution with Karen Curry Parker - April 25, 2024 10:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
Ready to reclaim sovereignty over your mind and rewrite your narrative? Join us as we explore simple yet profound practices to combat anxiety and cultivate resilience. “There is all this stuff that can stress us out and we can have these high levels of anxiety and depression.  But if we take...

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The Allure of the Multiverse (with Dr. Paul Halpern)

Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures - April 24, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Apr. 17, 2024 In this talk, physicist and popular author Paul Halpern (St. Joseph's College) examines the history of the concept of a multiverse in science, and discusses the ideas by Einstein and other noted physicists that have led scientist today to take the notion of multiple universes serio...

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Debating Pluto's Planethood with Alan Stern

StarTalk Radio - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Will Neil take back what he said about Pluto? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore planets, dwarf planets, and the Kuiper belt with planetary scientist and principal investigator for the New Horizons Mission, Alan Stern.  NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode ...

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AaS! 222: What is the Most Distant Thing We Can See?

Ask a Spaceman! - April 16, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratings
What’s the most distant thing we can see with the naked eye? What about with a telescope? What about at other wavelengths? Is there anything more to see? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhe...

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Eyes in the Sky with Larissa Rodrigues & Jennifer Holm

StarTalk Radio - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
How is new tech helping protect the rainforest? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn how space technology is helping uncover illegal gold mines and protecting the Amazon, with illegal mining expert Larissa Rodrigues and Earth researcher Jennifer Holm.  Thanks to SkyFi for sponsorin...

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The Black Hole Wars: My Battle with Stephen Hawking

Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures - April 15, 2024 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratings
With 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...

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Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Time Cloak with Charles Liu

StarTalk Radio - April 12, 2024 15:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Are black holes places or objects? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab-bag questions about distorting spacetime, Olbers’ Paradox, singularities, the shape of the universe, and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.  NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this ...

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Three Steps to Aligning Your Heart with Courageous Creativity

Quantum Revolution with Karen Curry Parker - April 11, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Align with your creative purpose and embrace your courage to transform your life. “For creatives, this is a daily challenge. How do you push up against your own inner inadequacy and keep creating, even though you're afraid that you're not ready?"  - Dr. Karen Curry Parker, host of Quantum Re...

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Three Steps to Aligning Your Heart with Courageous Creativity

Quantum Revolution with Karen Curry Parker - April 11, 2024 10:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
Align with your creative purpose and embrace your courage to transform your life. “For creatives, this is a daily challenge. How do you push up against your own inner inadequacy and keep creating, even though you're afraid that you're not ready?"  - Dr. Karen Curry Parker, host of Quantum Re...

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Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them

Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures - April 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratings
A Non-technical Talk by Dr. Jessica Lu (University of California, Berkeley) on March 13, 2024 The population of black holes, objects left over from dead stars,  is almost entirely unexplored. Only about two dozen black holes are confidently known in our Galaxy. As a result, some of the most bas...

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Things You Thought You Knew – The Geometric Universe

StarTalk Radio - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
What is the Sun’s ecliptic? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the things you thought you knew about spheres in the universe, navigating the sky, and taking spacecraft out of orbit.  NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://star...

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Eclipses, Cosmic Cataclysms, and More with Janna Levin

StarTalk Radio - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
What can we learn from eclipses? Janna Levin joined by comedian Matt Kirshen and professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Columbia University, Joe Patterson, discuss the 2017 eclipse, binary star systems, super novae and more. What is an eclipse on Jupiter like? NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can li...

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AaS! 221: Will Emergent Gravity Rewrite Physics?

Ask a Spaceman! - April 02, 2024 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratings
What is “emergence” in physics and why is it a big deal? What would it mean for gravity to be emergent? How would we have to rewrite the laws of physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhe...

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Cosmic Queries – Planck Lengths to Supermassive Black Holes with Matt O’Dowd

StarTalk Radio - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Is space infinitely stretchable? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore fan grab bag questions about supermassive black holes, Planck lengths, and the gravitational wave background with extragalactic astrophysicist and host of PBS Space Time, Matt O’Dowd. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons ca...

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Episode 142 Awesome Astronomy April 2024

AWESOME ASTRONOMY - April 01, 2024 22:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
This month Dr Jen is off to the US for the Solar Eclipse while Paul is just back from Goonhilly Earth Station. We chat about the imminent demise of the Chandra Space Telescope, more news on the Hubble tension, and of course the Great North American Eclipse.  Chinese Lunar ambitions, Starship m...

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Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - March 29, 2024 11:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 68 ratings
The Chief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972, IM-1. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control room is really based on Star Trek. Sue also tra...

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Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - March 29, 2024 11:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Chief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through IM-1, the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control room is really based on Star Trek. Sue also travels...

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Intuitive Machines and a nuclear reactor for the Moon

Naked Astronomy, from the Naked Scientists - March 29, 2024 11:21 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 8 ratings
Chief Scientist for Intuitive Machines, Ben Bussey, joins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham to talk through IM-1, the first US soft landing on the Moon since 1972. They discuss the landing, the broken legs, experiments and whether the IM control room is really based on Star Trek. Sue also travels...

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Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money with Ken Honda

Quantum Revolution with Karen Curry Parker - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Discover an intersection between authenticity, self-worth, and entrepreneurial success with practical guidance from Japan’s Bestselling Zen Millionaire Ken Honda. “Thank your money when it comes in and thank it when it goes out. Embrace the flow with gratitude.”  - Ken Honda, bestselling sel...

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Happy Money: The Japanese Art of Making Peace with Your Money with Ken Honda

Quantum Revolution with Karen Curry Parker - March 28, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
Discover an intersection between authenticity, self-worth, and entrepreneurial success with practical guidance from Japan’s Bestselling Zen Millionaire Ken Honda. “Thank your money when it comes in and thank it when it goes out. Embrace the flow with gratitude.”  - Ken Honda, bestselling sel...

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Staying Curious with William Shatner

StarTalk Radio - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
What is the value of curiosity? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with William Shatner to explore the nature of spacetime, Star Trek, human curiosity, loneliness, and more. How would warp drive work?  NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here:  https://startalkm...

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Britain's First Astronaut

AWESOME ASTRONOMY - March 22, 2024 09:03 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 114 ratings
This podcast extra is our full length interview with Dr Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space Station in 1991. 

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Is Aging a Disease? Epigenetics with David Sinclair

StarTalk Radio - March 22, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
Is aging a disease that can be cured? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly discover the field of epigenetics, the Information Theory of Aging, and curing blindness for mice with Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, David Sinclair. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can ...

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AaS! 220: Will Our Universe End in a Big Rip?

Ask a Spaceman! - March 19, 2024 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 711 ratings
How can a “big rip” tear the universe apart? What does that mean for existence itself? Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/sp...

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Cosmic Queries – Infinite Quarks

StarTalk Radio - March 19, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
What happens to quarks during spaghettification? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions about positrons, how we got the speed of light, where the Big Bang took place, and more! NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here:  https://sta...