The astroquarks discuss news about lunar quakes and Venus… volcanoes. But volcanoes doesn’t rhyme with quakes, so I sacrificed alliteration for rhyming. Venus may be volcanically active, at least on relatively recent geological timescales. If…
Category: Cosmology
Scientists have been chasing methane on Mars for years. It’s a slippery little molecule that doesn’t stick around very long and has several biological (as well as non-biological) sources. The armada of spacecraft at Mars…
Just when you thought Dark Energy couldn’t get any stranger, new measurements of the history of the expansion of the universe show an era well after the big bang and inflation but long, long ago…
Our guest, André Bormanis, has spent a considerable amount of time thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, as well as warp travel, holodecks, artificial life forms, and more. Having spent more than a decade as an advisor…
The astroquarks welcome Professor Mohamed Noor from Duke University, author of “Live Long and Evolve” to talk about evolution of humans and aliens, interspecies sex, and what we can learn about the big questions of…