This week is another news roundup! Be prepared for an entire hour of science news! Oh yeah – a certain DESK may be making a return! Read More
Tag: Dr. Brian Koberlein
Weekly Space Hangout: June 30, 2021 – The Gang’s (Almost) All Here: Celebrating Our Journalist Team
This week, in our Season Finale, we are celebrating and honoring an extra-special group of people on the Weekly Space Hangout: Our Journalist Team! We are also excited to introduce our newest team member, Dr. Nick Castle from PSI, and celebrate the return of Nika (Klimovich) following her brief sabbatical. Read More
Weekly Space Hangout: June 23, 2021 – Making Soil for Space Habitats with Dr. Jane Shevtsov
This week we are very pleased to welcome Dr. Jane Shevtsov, Mathematical Biology Instructor at UCLA, to the WSH. Her project proposal, Making Soil for Space Habitats by Seeding Asteroids with Fungi, is one of NASA’s 2021 NIAC Phase I selections. Read More
Weekly Space Hangout: May 5, 2021 – Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus, UConn
This week we aired Fraser’s prerecorded interview with Dr. Ronald Mallett, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor of Physics at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. Ron has hypothesized that a rotating ring laser could, via frame dragging, sufficiently twist space and time to mimic the conditions inside a rotating Black Hole, potentially allowing a binary message (encoded in a neutrino stream) to be sent back in time. Read More