Tag: EVSN
Feb 9th: Making Anti-Matter… Matter

Feb 9th: Making Anti-Matter… Matter

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Today EVSN look at what tree rings can teach us about past earthquakes, & how well machine learning can identify life, like trees, from carbon-rich materials that were never alive to distant galaxies and spinning black holes. We even take a deep dive into anti-matter.

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Feb 9th: Making Anti-Matter… Matter

Feb 1st: Whales and (Possible) Space Whales

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As the Thanksgiving leftovers reach the stage of possibly gaining intelligence in the back of our refrigerators, we’re going to take a look at the origins of life, how we might find simple life on icy moons, and even how we can practice learning to communicate with other civilizations by chatting up a humpback whale.

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Dec 29th: The Volcano That Could… But Didn’t

Dec 29th: The Volcano That Could… But Didn’t

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Dr. Pamela is big on volcanoes, and she hoped we’d have an awesome new eruption to report, but we don’t. Instead, we have the first images from a new spacecraft, updates on Lucy’s discovery of a contact binary, and more on the OSIRIS-REx sample return. 

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Feb 9th: Making Anti-Matter… Matter

Dec 15th: A River Runs Through It – Mars and Titan

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This episode reminds you to look up, look out, and reflect on what we see around us. Stories cover a weird white dwarf that is doing things our Sun may do billions of years from now, how satellite images can now be used to measure river flows here and on Mars, and Titan, as well as the emerging field of planetary geoarcheology. And also climate change. Buckle up, the news isn’t good. 

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