Today we’ll talk about advances in room temperature superconductivity, greenwashing and carbon capture, an experiment that sheds light on the mystery of cosmic magnetic fields, a robot arm with a needle, a camera with only one pixel, the supposedly coming age of clean technology, better phone memory, why rats might not have brought the plague after all, and of course, the telephone will ring ..read more

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Today we’ll talk about climate engineering, quantum computers, how to tell a nuclear bomb from TNT, what an atom really looks like, random keys from cosmic rays, who is filing the most patents and on what, climate labels for food, a tractor beam that didn’t quite live up to my expectations. And of course, the telephone will ring. Transcript, references, and discussion on Patreon ..read more

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In today’s episode, we’ll talk about the recent nuclear fusion headlines, and a new result from the Webb telescope. Then we’ll have a special guest, Fraser Cain, who’ll tell us what we learned from NASA’s Artemis mission. After that, we’ll talk about remote controlled magnetic slime, why atmospheric methane levels increased during the COVID pandemic, non-fogging glasses, algae that might ..read more

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Today we’ll talk about the 50-year anniversary of Apollo’s blue marble, the Square Kilometre Array, talking to robots, the Yellowstone volcano, nanoparticles that help with carbon capture, a forest bubble – on Mars, a new method of spacecraft propulsion, tests for cancer, earthquake tracking from space, and of course, the telephone will ring. Transcript, references, and discussion on ..read more