Lost Worlds: Life on Mars?

Vijay Sikand is a family doctor in the Connecticut town that gave Lyme disease its name. When a pharmaceutical company came to town to test a vaccine, he built a career and a community around the trial. Then the Lyme vaccine became a cautionary tale. Guest: Vijay Sikand, MD, fami ...  Show more

Fetuses leave cells behind in their parents' bodies, where they braid themselves into tissues, and remain, for years. What are they doing in there? Guests: ⁠Amy Boddy⁠, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara; ⁠Lee Nelson⁠, Professor Eme ...  Show more

Ponder living on Mars in this Martian mashup as we explore “The Martian,” food and sports on Mars, and more. With Neil Tyson, Bill Nye, Mike Massimino, Buzz Aldrin, Andy Weir, Mary Roach, John Oliver, Eugene Mirman, Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly and many others.
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Join us on "The Cosmic Chronicles Podcast" for an episode that looks beyond our planet Earth. Hosts Quinn and James explore the idea of humans leaving our planet to live on others. We'll dive deep into the concept of terraforming and its potential use in making Mars habitable. We ...  Show more

Unearthing rivers on Mars and Titan has ignited a fire within me, a flame fueled by the tantalizing possibility of life in the most unlikely of places. The shocking discovery of these rivers, once teeming with potential, has shattered our perception of barren landscapes and opene ...  Show more

On July 20, 1976, Viking 1 became the first robotic lander to land on Mars. On September 3, its sister Viking 2 followed suit. Both of them carried experiments to test for biology on Mars, something which no subsequent Mars lander since has replicated.  The results from these ch ...  Show more