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Emily Levesque
A stellar history of modern astronomy
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Dec 2020
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Philip Lubin
How humanity can reach the stars
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Sep 2020
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Fabio Pacucci
Newton's three-body problem explained
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Aug 2020
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Karin Öberg
The galactic recipe for a living planet
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Apr 2020
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Curtis Austin
The real story of the Black Panther Party
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Feb 2020
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Risa Wechsler
The search for dark matter — and what we've found so far
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Jan 2020
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Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars
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Dec 2019
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Kelsey Johnson
The problem of light pollution — and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it
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Dec 2019
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Mike Brown
The search for our solar system's ninth planet
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Nov 2019
5:20
Fabio Pacucci
Hawking's black hole paradox explained
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Oct 2019
5:17
Federica Bianco
How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
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Sep 2019
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Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
A climate change solution that's right under our feet
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Soraya Field Fiorio
The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar
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Aug 2019
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Rick Doblin
The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
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Jul 2019
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Lynn Rothschild
The living tech we need to support human life on other planets
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Jun 2019
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Juna Kollmeier
The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
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Jun 2019
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Erika Hamden
What it takes to launch a telescope
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May 2019
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Austin Eubanks
What surviving the Columbine shooting taught me about pain
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May 2019
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Sheperd Doeleman
Inside the black hole image that made history
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Apr 2019
13:15
Alexander MacDonald
How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight
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Apr 2019
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Phil Plait
The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
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Mar 2019
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David Lunney
The life cycle of a neutron star
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Feb 2019
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Leonora Neville
The princess who rewrote history
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Oct 2018
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Matt Russo
What does the universe sound like? A musical tour
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Oct 2018
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Sajan Saini
What is the universe expanding into?
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Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil
A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe
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Aug 2018
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DK Osseo-Asare
What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
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Aug 2018
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Stephen Webb
Where are all the aliens?
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Jul 2018
13:24
Karen J. Meech
The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system
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Jun 2018
11:11
Dustin Schroeder
How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet
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Mar 2018
10:51
Danielle Wood
6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth
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Feb 2018
13:39
Gabriela González
How LIGO discovered gravitational waves — and what might be next
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David Baron
You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse
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Aug 2017
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Natasha Hurley-Walker
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Katie Bouman
How to take a picture of a black hole
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Carrie Nugent
Adventures of an asteroid hunter
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