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Jonathan is joined by Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and author of Pregnancy Interrupted: The Science and Stories of How Pregnancies Really End, Kate Clancy 

Guest: Colonel Chris Hadfield, retired Royal Canadian Air Force Colonel, Test Pilot, and CSA Astronaut 

This episode is a weighty one. Some might say massive. It’s all about gravity. What is it? Why does it matter? Izzie and Dr Becky explore Einstein and Newton’s different ideas on the subject, plus Izzie visits the Royal Society to see Isaac Newton's original manuscript for his wo ...  Show more

Claudia de Rham has rather an unusual relationship with gravity. While she has spent her career exploring its fundamental nature, much of her free time has involved trying to defy it - from scuba diving in the Indian Ocean to piloting small aircraft over the Canadian waterfalls. ...  Show more

Information about the universe is all around us. But there’s more than meets the eye! Gravitational waves are the invisible ripples in spacetime caused by supermassive interstellar activity. Join astrophysicists Ira Thorpe and Judy Racusin on an exploration of how NASA studies th ...  Show more