Stephen Hawking gets it right again

As anti-science leaves research reeling, does evidence-based policy in a scientific society have much of a future? Michael Mann, Naomi Oreskes, Angie Rasmussen and Deb Houry discuss some of the sources and motivations that perhaps belie the current state of scientific affairs. Pr ...  Show more

As two species of coral are killed off by the 2023 heatwave in the Florida reefs, the abilities of different plankton species to cope with rising CO2 remain crucially unknown. Also, retrospective research shows a strong suggestion that mRNA covid vaccination might serendipitously ...  Show more

<span>Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts. Read more at QuantaMagazine.org. Music is “Light Gazing” by Andrew Langdon.</span>

As black holes spiral around each other in the distant universe, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space-time itself. We have now detected such ripples from stellar-mass black holes, as well as directly imaging a su ...

The Space, Astronomy & Science Podcast. SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 24 *Warping SpaceTime: The Fast-Spinning Black Hole at the Milky Way's Heart NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope and the Very Large Array have observed the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at our galaxy's ...  Show more

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.
SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 89
*The ongoing search for Dark Matter
Scientists have placed new limits on where the mysterious invisible substance known as dark matter could be hiding.
*Another win for M ...  Show more