Yesterday

The Fight Tearing Apart Silicon Valley

For years, a debate has been simmering in Silicon Valley over the right way to build artificial intelligence. Should it be open and free for anyone to use, or should we tightly control how it’s made and who can access it? Mike Isaac, who covers technology for The New York Times, ... Show More

26m 51s

Jul 30

Europe Is Burning

This summer, wildfires have been raging across Europe. France and Spain have been hit particularly badly, with hundreds of thousands of acres incinerated and entire communities devastated. Chico Harlan, the global climate correspondent for The New York Times, and Mark Landler, th ... Show More

29m 49s

Jul 29

Israel, AIPAC and Difficult Questions for Democrats

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group known as AIPAC, has spent a record amount of money in this year’s midterm elections to either oust or support candidates based on their support of Israel. Jonathan Mahler, a writer for The New York Times Ma ... Show More

39m 30s

Jul 2022

Sunday Edition: A Look Inside NASA’s ‘Cosmic Time Machine’

Scientists were captivated when NASA released the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, which included images of distant galaxies billions of light years away. We examine what they could tell us about the universe and what else the telescope will be looking for in ... Show More

12m 44s

Jan 2022

The James Webb Time Machine

To look into deep space is to look back in time. Ahead of the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Unexplainable talked to scientists who hope to see “cosmic dawn,” a period long ago when the first starlight transformed the universe. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Supp ... Show More

25m 44s

Jul 2022

Peering 13 Billion Years into the past

It may have felt a little smaller down here on earth today after NASA released more stunning images taken by the James Webb Space telescope. Head of Science at the UK Space Agency Dr Caroline Harper chats to Karyn about her reaction to those images and what the UK's involvement i ... Show More

9m 43s

Jul 2022

FYI those telescope photos are kinda fake

But the images from the Webb Space Telescope still provide our best look yet at the formation of the universe. NASA astrophysicist Amber Straughn and science journalist Josh Sokol unpack humanity’s newest glimpse at the cosmos. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, ed ... Show More

26m 6s

Jan 2022

The James Webb Space Telescope

This Sunday, the greatest telescope in the history of humanity is scheduled to reach its destination nearly a million miles away from Earth. Vox’s Unexplainable explored what it will do when it gets there. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a ... Show More

28m 57s

Sep 2023

The James Webb Space Telescope Is Fueling Galactic Controversy

We're entering a new era of astrophysics. The James Webb Space Telescope is helping scientists test existing ideas and models of how the universe was created—on a whole new level. This telescope is sending back images of galaxies forming under a billion years after the Big Bang—w ... Show More

13m 4s

Aug 2025

Why Webb's Earliest Galaxies Are Blowing Scientists' Minds

With the James Webb Space Telescope, we are seeing the early universe like never before. Webb produces beautiful images and detailed scientific data that leave astronomers in awe. In this episode, Mic Bagley, a NASA scientist on the Webb team, guides us through new discoveries ma ... Show More

27m 54s

A View of the Beginning of Time