Dr. Becky On Being An Astrophysicist, The Cosmological Crisis, And Accents

Animal intelligence is a subject of much debate, but new studies have shown that in many ways, animals are much smarter than we give them credit for, and have entirely different kind of intelligence t...

14 Joulu 202025min

Water covers 71% of the Earth's surface. We are a water planet, it makes life possible. But where exactly it came from is still a bit of a mystery. Some new studies have shared some light on this ques...

23 Marras 202015min

Mars is far away. So far, it takes light anywhere from 3 to 22 minutes to travel there. This means the way we communicate is going to be very, very different - and will have long-term effects we can't...

18 Marras 202016min

We've heard a lot about electric cars lately, but what about electric airplanes? The air transportation industry is a huge contributor to greenhouse gasses. Could we electrify our air fleet as well? T...

9 Marras 202015min

Cognitive biases. We all have them. But we only seem to notice them in other people. Today we're looking at 3 of the most prevalent and destructive cognitive biases that we all have, and what we can d...

2 Marras 202019min

The funeral industry is a $16 billion industry that has an enormous environmental footprint. The numbers are staggering, really. But there are options that we can make that can change that. It just re...

28 Loka 202018min

The Bermuda Triangle has held our collective attention for decades. This area of the ocean is blamed for countless missing ships and planes, spawning theories as wide-ranging as time/space vortexes, m...

22 Loka 202020min

The Big Bang Theory of the origin of the universe is pretty much set in stone - or so you would think. Turns out there are several problems with the Big Bang model, some of which are answered with Inf...

19 Loka 202019min