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Fire doesn’t play by Earth’s rules once you leave gravity behind. In this deep dive with Professor Michael Gollner, we unpack what the recent experiments at the ISS called SoFIE-MIST taught us about solid fuel flammability in microgravity—how tiny ventilation, oxygen levels, and pressure shifts determine whether a flame spreads, stalls, or vanishes. The details are surprising: blue “bubble” flames, two distinct extinction points, and sustained burning at oxygen levels that would fail to ignit...

Send us a text In this episode, we field a bunch of Q&A questions, take a walk down conversation street, and discuss the highly anticipated return of an iconic high-power rocket motor manufacturer. Join the Rocket Vlogs Discord: https://discord.gg/BvVnu2tp Support the AGG Podcast: https://patreon.com/aggpod Support the show Follow Braden Here: https://youtube.com/@rocketvlogs https://www.instagram.com/bigb1011 https://www.tiktok.com/@bradencarlson6 Follow Taylor here: https://www.y...

Jim talks with Koustubh Phalak about quantum random access memory (QRAM), a proposed technology that would allow the storage of quantum states in qunatum computation.  Koustubh discusses quantum computing, the need for QRAM, proposed implementations of QRAM, and some of the difficulties in its implementation.Show Notes:  http//frontiers.physicsfm.com/82

As human beings, we are lucky enough to be at the top of the food chain.  Being at the top means there is nothing above us.  No predators to watch out for, nothing evolving to eat is specifically.  We never have to check our rear view.  Or do we?  In this episode we discuss what […]

This week we examine the rather optimistic notion that one might construct a room capable of becoming anywhere in the universe, provided one doesn't mind the minor inconvenience of rewriting several fundamental laws of physics. The holodeck represents humanity's most ambitious attempt to make reality optional—a project that has proven marginally more challenging than anticipated. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM We explore the surprisingly complex science

Join Emerging Technologies Conference 2025 guest host Dr. Mark Lewis, President and CEO of the Purdue Applied Research Institute, for a conversation with Elīna Egle, CEO of the Federation of Security and Defense Industries of Latvia. Egle shares insights into Latvia’s growing defense and security sector, highlighting its strengths as well as its vulnerabilities. The discussion covers topics such as funding acquisition, international cooperation, NATO procurement systems, and barriers to innovation

Wayne Myrvold reinterprets thermodynamics as a resource theory, arguing that the slogan “entropy always increases” follows from the second law rather than defining it. The conversation contrasts Gibbs and Boltzmann entropy, examines Maxwell’s demon, Landauer erasure, statistical bounds on Carnot efficiency, and explores implications for cosmology, ergodicity, and collapse theories, ending with pedagogical reflections and career advice.- 00:00 - Is entropy in the system or in our minds?- 07:12 -

On this episode of Impact Quantum, we beam into the heart of France’s quantum revolution with special guests Sabine Mehr, Chief Quantum Projects Officer at GENCI, and Félix Givois, Quantum Computing Projects Engineer. Join hosts Candace Gillhoolley and Frank La Vigne as they unravel how France is building a vibrant, government-backed quantum ecosystem—powering everything from photonic quantum processing units and neutral atoms to national strategies that foster collaboration across startups,

Our universe is expanding. But when physicists measure how fast this expansion rate is, they get two different answers. Hear what this crisis means from Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess. For ask-us-anything segments and other exclusives, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse Our merch is available here: https://www.shalmawegsman.com/why-this-universe Support the show

I talk with computational social scientist Petter Törnberg about the dynamics of online information.

What happens when a city doesn’t just sprawl across continents but covers an entire planet? In this episode of Entropy Rising, Jacob and Lucas explore the concept of the ecumenopolis—a world completely urbanized from pole to pole. From the classic depictions of Coruscant in Star Wars and Trantor in Foundation, to the grim hive cities of Warhammer 40K, we dig into the science and engineering challenges of building a planet-wide metropolis. We break down population math, vertical megastructures...

Reliability doesn’t fail because the maths is wrong. It fails because of people. That’s where we begin this straight-talking conversation with Steve Morris, the driving force behind Mainstream. For more than 30 years he has been building something different: a movement that puts real maintenance leaders on stage, replaces the hero firefighter with predictable performance, and keeps the community alive all year round so practitioners can share what actually works without the sales pitch. We lo...

In the Season 1 finale of I’m Finally Reading My Brother’s Book, Clay and Gavin explore three ways we explain the universe—creational, reductive, and narrative constructions. Gavin then shares his boldest idea yet: that the universe isn’t made of matter or energy, but information—that reality itself is a computation.Season 2 is coming soon. Until then, keep wondering.#SciencePodcast #Cosmology #PhysicsExplained #UniverseExplained #PhilosophyAndScience #InformationTheory #BigIdeas #MindBlown

We get to know the scientist with whom the scientific revolution got going. What were his convictions and how did they effect his scientific work?

What if the story running your life was never yours to begin with? In this truth-telling episode, Bob Atkinson and Dr. Julie expose the broken myths of separation that have shaped our world—and illuminate the emerging narrative of unity that is already rewriting the future. This is more than philosophy. It’s medicine for a divided world. And it begins with you.This is The Whole Conversation. Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., author, speaker, and developmental psychologist, is a 2017 Nautilus Book

Join guest host Dr. Liz Specht for a conversation with Nicole Favreau Farhadi, Senior Research Biochemist at the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s (DEVCOM) Soldier Center, Combat Feeding Division (CFD). This episode, the final installment of our five-part biomanufacturing series, explores food research within the Department of Defense and the intersection of food biomanufacturing innovation with warfighter readiness. The discussion highlights the Defense Department’s responsibilities in

In this episode, we sit down with Erwin De Baetselier, the CEO of Luceda, a company at the forefront of software innovation for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). As PICs continue to reshape the landscape of optical systems—from data centers to quantum labs—the tools used to design and simulate them are becoming just as critical as the hardware itself.Luceda’s software empowers engineers and researchers to model, optimize, and scale photonic designs with precision and speed. We dive into how their

In part two, Associate Professor Marian-Andrei Rizoiu from the University of Technology Sydney explains how misinformation and toxic online cultures spread. We dive into the “manosphere pipeline” targeting boys as young as 10, its real-world impacts on schools and families, and how it can escalate into radicalisation. Rizoiu outlines his team’s six-stage pipeline - from passive curiosity to active involvement - and why simply giving people facts doesn’t solve the problem. Instead, this is a human

Pierre Desjardins is the cofounder of C12, a Paris-based quantum computing hardware startup that specializes in carbon nanotube-based spin qubits. Notably, Pierre founded the company alongside his twin brother, Mathieu, making them the only twin-led deep-tech startups that we know of! Pierre’s journey is unconventional—he is a rare founder in quantum hardware without a PhD, drawing instead on engineering and entrepreneurial experience. The episode dives into what drew him to quantum