A New Era For SETI Research: More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

A New Era For SETI Research: More on the Breakthrough Initiatives

We follow last week’s conversation with Ann Druyan about the $100 million funding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by visiting with two of the scientists who will do the work: Dan Werthimer of UC Berkeley and Karen O’Neil of the Green Bank Telescope.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dr. Bell Goes to Washington

Dr. Bell Goes to Washington

Planetary Scientist Jim Bell of Arizona State University joined other experts in front of the US House of Representatives Space Committee on September 10th. Get his report this week.Learn more about y...

16 Syys 201428min

Miguel Alcubierre, Inventor of Warp Drive?

Miguel Alcubierre, Inventor of Warp Drive?

Inspired by Star Trek, distinguished physicist Miguel Alcubierre developed the general relativity-based model for warp drive 20 years ago. Hear why he doubts it will ever be a reality, and learn about...

9 Syys 201428min

Smashing Holes in Mars to Look for Life

Smashing Holes in Mars to Look for Life

Explore Mars wants to look for life on the Red Planet. Not past life. Life thriving under the Martian surface right now. Chris Carberry will tell us how the ExoLance project might find it.Learn more a...

2 Syys 201428min

Alan Stern and a Big Milestone on the Way to Pluto

Alan Stern and a Big Milestone on the Way to Pluto

New Horizons passed through the orbit of Neptune on August 25th. By cosmic coincidence, this was the 25th anniversary of Voyager 2’s flyby of that big, blue world. We catch Principal Investigator Alan...

26 Elo 201428min

Journey to the Center of Jupiter: Creating Fantastic Pressure With the World’s Largest Lasers

Journey to the Center of Jupiter: Creating Fantastic Pressure With the World’s Largest Lasers

Physicist Gilbert "Rip" Collins of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab will tell us about recent use of the world’s most powerful lasers to recreate conditions at the cores of giant planets.Learn more...

19 Elo 201429min

The Search for Extraterrestrial Polluters?

The Search for Extraterrestrial Polluters?

Harvard’s Henry Lin led work that determined the soon-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope may be able to detect an alien civilization by analyzing its atmosphere.Learn more about your ad choices...

12 Elo 201428min

A Death-Defying Climax for Venus Express

A Death-Defying Climax for Venus Express

Venus Express Project Scientist Håkan Svedhem tells us about the spacecraft’s harrowing descent into the Venusian atmosphere, what it is currently up to, and what he’d like to see next at that forbidd...

5 Elo 201428min

Jay Barbree on “Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight”

Jay Barbree on “Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight”

In his 55 years as NBC’s space correspondent, Jay Barbree has won the respect and friendship of many astronauts. Neil Armstrong stands above them all. Now Jay has created this very personal chronicle ...

29 Heinä 201439min

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