Gay penguins and fish that change sex? How about birds engaging in lesbian behavior? We delve into the natural world and its often underreported queer behaviors that have frequently been steeped in historical prejudices and biases.  From mammals and birds to squid and beetles, queer behaviors and biologies are more prevalent than you might imagine among non-human animals. So just how queer is the natural world? Host Eleanor Higgs speaks to Josh Luke Davis, author of A Little Gay Natural

New research suggests that black holes of vastly different sizes follow the same rule when launching powerful radio jets.By studying stars torn apart by black holes, scientists found that jets appear when the feeding rate falls below a critical threshold. The discovery reveals a surprising universal pattern in how matter falls into black holes and could help astronomers predict when these powerful jets will appear.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes

Fascinating Frontiers🚀 Fascinating Frontiers - Space & Astronomy News Chinese spaceplane executed a rerendezvous with its subsat on September tenth and a recapture on September thirteenth. Top 15 Space & Astronomy Stories No source selection statement issued for Mars network contract — NASA NASA awarded Blue Origin a contract to develop the Mars Telecommunications Network more than three weeks ago. ... Sources: nasa.gov · esa.int · universemagazine.com · collectspace.com · tucson.com ·

SpaceX DailySpaceX gains classified Pentagon tracking data to sharpen collision avoidance for its eleven thousand satellites. Top News SpaceX gains access to Pentagon orbital tracking data SpaceX has reached an agreement with the U.S. Space Force that allows the company to use the Pentagon’s most detailed classified data on objects in space. The arrangement also gives the military access to tracking information gathered through SpaceX’s Starlink network. ... Sources: kaohooninternational.com ·

Saturn and Jupiter both grace the evening sky now. Saturn is high in the south after sunset, while Jupiter rises in the east and dominates by midnightPortions of the podcast are made with the assistance of AI which helps us gather informaton from the NASA and other sources.Also check out UFO Sightings Today to see what else is happening in the skies.

Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Thanks to Curiosity Stream for supporting PBSDS. You can get the first 60 days free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/spacetime and use the code "spacetime" during the sign-up process. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists have searched and searched for any hint of new particles. That search has been fruitless. Until, perhaps, now. Today on Space Time Journal

Hey! I'd love to hear your thoughts, send me a voice note.In this episode, we talk to houseplants, drawing a parallel between Jean's great-grandparents' experience with plants as apothecaries and the new outer-space odysseys.Lisa talks about her tragic loss of houseplants, and the poor cat takes the blame.

In this episode, we explore the extraordinary discovery of GRB 220706A, a record-shattering cosmic explosion at redshift z = 0.8577. While most gamma-ray burst engines die down within minutes, X-ray follow-up observations revealed active flaring continuing for 27 rest-frame days (~51 days in the observer frame). This sets the record for the latest central engine activity ever detected in a gamma-ray burst by a margin of roughly 21 rest-frame days.An Engine Duration for the Record Books: How combined

Perseverance drove to the edge of an ancient Martian lake expecting a beach and found the inside of a volcano — rock that water has been through at least three separate times. Europe's Jupiter probe comes home on Monday night and crosses Australia in a fully dark sky. Two teams, using two completely different techniques, both find something hiding inside the most famous planetary system we have ever photographed — and an Australian instrument is in the middle of one of them. Plus: heavy water in an

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Perseverance drove to the edge of an ancient Martian lake expecting a beach and found the inside of a volcano — rock that water has been through at least three separate times. Europe's Jupiter probe comes home on Monday night and crosses Australia in a fully dark sky. Two teams, using two completely different techniques, both find something hiding inside the most famous planetary system we have ever photographed — and an Australian instrument is in the middle of one of them. Plus: heavy water in an

The paranormal comedy podcast where we probe Ye Olde Kings Head, which is more than 400 years old and is, these days, a hotel in Chester in the Northwest of the U.K. The place is now known as My Haunted Hotel and is part of the My Haunted Project but it’s not the hotel specifically we are probing, it’s the most haunted item in that haunted hotel, Grace. Grace is a porcelain doll and she may or may not have the spirit of a witch and a demon inside her, among others. Tune in to find out whether we

In this installment, we cover China's entrance into the space realm. Amid numerous successes, you can see their excitement and preparation show through in their mission. Enjoy!

When astronomers mapped thousands of exoplanets using NASA’s Kepler telescope, they expected to find a smooth distribution of planet sizes—small rocky worlds gradually blending into larger gaseous ones.Instead, they found something unexpected: a clear and persistent shortage of planets with radii between about 1.5 and 2 Earth radii.This region, now widely known as the planetary radius gap or Fulton gap, appears as a distinct “valley” in the size distribution of exoplanets. It is not a subtle

October brings movement, revision, and an increasing sense that larger changes are beginning to unfold. Venus turns retrograde in Libra on October 2, beginning a creative and relational reworking that intensifies as Mercury joins her in retrograde motion on October 24, all while Rahu and Mars amplify an already active Libra environment. Retrograde Saturn returns to Uttarabhadra, reminding us to keep checking foundations rather than rushing toward completion, while the new Moon in Virgo offers...

Growing Worlds is back for Season 2! In this short bonus episode, hosts Jeni and Lorenzo look back at where Season 1 took us and share what is changing as we begin a new year of the podcast.We welcome Robyn to the Growing Worlds team alongside assistant producer Carys, and reveal our plans to make the podcast more student-driven, bringing new people, ideas and voices into the show throughout the year.The heart of Growing Worlds is not changing: we will still be exploring exoplanet science with

BONUS PART STARTS AT 31:55 Watch here (with no ads) or on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OVcy19IcuIg🟣 Guest: Dr. Dave Deboer 📜 The Lunar Farside Transients and Technology Telescope (LFT3) Mission https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.25762 https://lft3.space/A radio telescope on the far side of the Moon should become a reality very soon. How will it operate? What science will it do? Who and how will deliver it? Finding out in this interview.00:00 Intro 01:59 Why the far side of the Moon? 08:01 Possible science

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