Latest Climate science Podcast Episodes
Stars Talk to Neil – Alien Love
StarTalk Radio - April 26, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsHow 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...
Debating Pluto's Planethood with Alan Stern
StarTalk Radio - April 23, 2024 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWill 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 ...
Eyes in the Sky with Larissa Rodrigues & Jennifer Holm
StarTalk Radio - April 16, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsHow 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...
Cosmic Queries – Black Hole Time Cloak with Charles Liu
StarTalk Radio - April 12, 2024 15:32 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsAre 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 ...
Do wind turbines kill birds?
TILclimate - April 11, 2024 09:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsWind power is the largest source of clean, renewable energy in the United States. But the large turbines that create that power can endanger wildlife. MIT Professor Michael Howland returns to the podcast to answer a listener's question about the risks of wind energy to birds—and explain how wind...
Things You Thought You Knew – The Geometric Universe
StarTalk Radio - April 09, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat 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...
Eclipses, Cosmic Cataclysms, and More with Janna Levin
StarTalk Radio - April 05, 2024 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat 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...
Do wind turbines freeze up in the cold?
TILclimate - April 04, 2024 09:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsYou might have heard how wind turbines failed in Texas during a terrible cold front in 2021. Does this mean we can’t rely on this clean, renewable source of energy when the weather turns extreme? MIT Professor Michael Howland joins the podcast to explain how wind turbine operators prepare for fr...
Solutions for Sustaining Environmental Flows
Come Rain or Shine - April 03, 2024 07:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsFlows in the Rio Chama, a tributary of the Rio Grande in northern New Mexico, have dwindled from drought and rising temperatures as well as diversion for agricultural irrigation. These diminished flows threaten groundwater resources and habitat for endangered plants and animals. Paul Tashjian, D...
Cosmic Queries – Planck Lengths to Supermassive Black Holes with Matt O’Dowd
StarTalk Radio - April 02, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsIs 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...
Won’t more CO2 help plants grow?
TILclimate - March 28, 2024 09:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsPlants take in CO2 from the air to grow—and today’s atmosphere has about 50% more CO2 than it did before we started burning massive amounts of fossil fuels. So, is that great news for plants? Prof. David Des Marais, a plant ecologist at MIT, helps answer this listener question. For a deeper div...
Staying Curious with William Shatner
StarTalk Radio - March 26, 2024 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat 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...
Is Aging a Disease? Epigenetics with David Sinclair
StarTalk Radio - March 22, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsIs 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 ...
Strange bedfellows: Howard Hughes, a $2 billion ship and a lost Soviet submarine
63 Degrees North - March 21, 2024 19:10 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt's 1968 and a Soviet sub carrying nuclear warheads has gone missing – lost, with all hands. The Soviets never found it – but the Americans did – in nearly 5000 meters of water. What follows is the strange tale of Project Azorian, an ultra-secret mission by the US Central Intelligence Agency, ...
Cosmic Queries – Infinite Quarks
StarTalk Radio - March 19, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat 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...
Season 6 Preview: Something a Little Different
TILclimate - March 15, 2024 09:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 119 ratingsThe sixth season of Today I Learned: Climate is coming in two weeks, and this time we’re doing something a little different. People all around the world write into our team with questions about climate change. So this season, we’re working with scientists and experts at MIT and beyond, to answer...
Do We Have Free Will? with Robert Sapolsky
StarTalk Radio - March 12, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsIs there a quantum reason we could have free will? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the concept of free will and predetermination with neuroscientist, biologist, and author of Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will, Robert Sapolsky. A special thanks from our edito...
Stars Talk to Neil – Reversing Earth’s Rotation
StarTalk Radio - March 08, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat happens after death? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-host Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer science questions from celebrities like Kelly Clarkson, Dax Shepard, Sway Calloway, and more! NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/...
Climate Change, Coastlines, and Aquaculture
Come Rain or Shine - March 06, 2024 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsHow is climate change affecting our coasts and ocean? What about aquaculture? Halley Froehlich, an expert in climate change impacts to coasts and oceans, with a strong focus on aquaculture, joins us to discuss this important topic as we wrap up our series highlighting Key Messages in the Southwe...
Breaking Down Oppenheimer with Brian Greene
StarTalk Radio - March 05, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat do two physicists think about the movie Oppenheimer? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with theoretical physicist Brian Greene to discuss Robert J. Oppenheimer’s work on the Manhattan Project, the science in Christopher Nolan’s film, and the dawn of quantum physics. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons ca...
Neil’s Guide to Heat Transfer Physics
StarTalk Radio - February 27, 2024 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsHow do you make some things stay hot and others stay cool? Neil deGrasse Tyson, with the help of comedian Chuck Nice, explains the physics of heat transfer, insulation, and why your Stanley cup can keep your drink cold during a fire. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode co...
Why We Get Depressed with Heather Berlin
StarTalk Radio - February 23, 2024 08:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat is depression? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the neuroscience behind major depression, its treatments, and the factors that contribute to this pervasive condition with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this ...
Incentivizing the Future with Peter Diamandis
StarTalk Radio - February 20, 2024 07:30 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsHow do science competitions further innovation? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with Peter Diamandis, Founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, to discuss science innovation, incentive competitions, and the future of space, longevity, AI, and more. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episod...
Cosmic Queries – Becoming Entangled
StarTalk Radio - February 13, 2024 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsHow do particles get entangled? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice, answer grab-bag questions about harnessing Hawking Radiation, bad places to construct wormholes, and whether running or walking in the rain makes you wetter. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode c...
PhysicsBowl: Tackling Science
StarTalk Radio - February 09, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat is one of the greatest displays of terrestrial physics? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly break down the physics of “The Tush Push” and the science in American football. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Thanks to our P...
Fifth National Climate Assessment, Southwest Chapter: Health, Water, Agriculture, and Wildfire
Come Rain or Shine - February 07, 2024 08:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsWe continue our discussion of the Southwest Chapter of the 5th National Climate Assessment (NCA5). Each Chapter of NCA5 is organized around Key Messages. This month we interviewed the lead authors of four Key Messages in the Southwest Chapter, covering human health, water, agriculture, and wildf...
Seabed mining – savior or scourge?
63 Degrees North - February 06, 2024 08:05 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsNorway's Mid-Arctic Ocean Ridge is alive with underwater volcanic activity – where big towers called black smokers spew mineral-laden boiling hot water into the ocean. The minerals precipitate out, and have accumulated over millions of years. At the same time, this extreme environment is home to...
The Mystery of Mushrooms with Bryn Dentinger
StarTalk Radio - February 06, 2024 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhy are some mushrooms delicious, some make you high, and some kill you? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover the weird world of mushrooms, psilocybin, and mycelia with mycologist Bryn Dentinger. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: h...
Immunizing Against Anti-Science with Peter Hotez
StarTalk Radio - January 30, 2024 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsHow do you stop the spread of anti-science rhetoric? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio break down disease prevention and the rise of anti-science with physician and global health expert, Peter Hotez. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: ht...
Cosmic Queries – A Ripple in Spacetime with Charles Liu
StarTalk Radio - January 26, 2024 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratingsWhat if time had multiple dimensions? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab-bag questions about Hawking Radiation, the speed of light, and how rare black holes are with astrophysicist Charles Liu. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode com...
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