Virtually Speaking Science

Virtually Speaking Science


Latest Episodes

Alan Boyle: Curiosity, 3 years of Mars Exploration
August 04, 2015

JPL reports on 3 years of Mars Exploration

Kelly Hills & Madhusudan Katti: Reconciliation Ecology
July 22, 2015

Kelly Hills & Madhusudan Katti: reconciliation ecology: managing urban ecosystems for biodiversity; which includes managing the impact of droughts.

Kelly Hills & Madhusudan Katti: Reconciliation Ecology
July 22, 2015

Kelly Hills & Madhusudan Katti: reconciliation ecology: managing urban ecosystems for biodiversity; which includes managing the impact of droughts.

Alan Boyle & Tom Jones • Celebrating Asteroid Day
June 29, 2015

Former NASA astronaut and planetary scientist Tom Jones and Alan Boyle preview Asteroid Day, an occasion that highlights the threats and opportunities posed by

Kelly Hills and Kaberi Kar Gupta • Survival of the Slender Loris
June 24, 2015

Kelly talks with Dr. Kaberi Kar Gupta, Principal Scientist of the Urban Slender Loris Project, where citizens and scientists learn about this small nocturnal pr

Jennifer Ouellette, Brendan Nyhan: Measles, Identity Politics, Cognitive Biases
June 10, 2015

The science of swaying popular opinion: think vaccines.Dartmouthpolitical scientist/psychologistBrendan Nyhanspecializesin the cognitive biases that come with identity politics. Jennifer and Bren

Alan Boyle & Mark Showalter: New Horizons, Pluto & Its moons
June 03, 2015

Alan Boyle talks with Mark Showalter, a planetary scientist at the SETI Institute, about the latest findings about Pluto and its moons, next month's flyby of th

Alan Boyle & Matt Strassler • Large Hadron Collider
May 06, 2015

Discuss upcoming plans for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world's largest and most powerful particle collider, and the largest single machine in the worl

Jennifer Ouellette, Shaun Maguire • Quantum Info, Black Holes, Cyber Security
April 08, 2015

Tensor networks, quantum information, emergent space-time, black hole firewalls, cyber security. J ennifer talks with Shaun Maguire, a mathematical physicist w

Alan Boyle & Will Pomerantz • Virgin Galactic on the Frontier
April 01, 2015

What’s up at Virgin Galactic? Five months after the tragic loss of SpaceShipTwo and one of its pilots, the company is building a new SpaceShipTwo – and moving a