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Brian Dunning touches on the myriad rip-offs claiming health benefits with no real science to back them up. In this first volume of "Consumer Ripof...
- Added: May 16, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Bill Shanabruch left his job as regional biologist for the Piedmont with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. It was over a boondoggl...
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 26:08
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...
- Added: Apr 16, 2024
- Length: 24:26
Brian Dunning takes a look at the history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it.
Bought by CI Dolphin Radio
- Added: Feb 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.
- Added: Jan 27, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Brian Dunning examines the legends of four famous cryptids: the Bili Ape of the Congo, the Beast of Gevaudan, the Monster of Port Chatham, and the ...
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- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:04
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:37
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:48
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 05:00
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:52
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:01
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars.
In fact, rogue exoplanet...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 03:48
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of th...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 04:29
In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same m...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 03:59
To get anywhere in the galaxy at anything resembling a reasonable time, we need to go fast - some fraction of light speed would be best. Proxima C...
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 04:33
A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets fo...
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- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplane...
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- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 1
