Dark matter and dark energy: mapping the...

In partnership with Frontiers Science House, we bring you the next installment of our Why? series. Today, we tackle one of science's most hotly debated fields and ask: Why geoengineering? What do we mean by it? Can reflecting the sun really help improve the climate? And what are ... Show More

Europe's supermarket fridges and freezers have come under sustained cyber attacks - BBC tech and AI editor, Zoe Kleinman, has the latest. Plus, what to expect from the COP31 climate summit in Turkey, why two indigenous groups in Tanzania and Bolivia share the same gut microbes, a ... Show More

Mitochondria - the longest and most successful partnership in biology - a symbiosis between bacteria and complex cells spanning billions of years - go under our microscope this week. We've teamed up with ARIA - the Advanced Research + Invention Agency - to find out more about the ... Show More

<p>What are dark energy and dark matter? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn about the Euclid Mission and our latest efforts to uncover the secrets of The Dark Universe with JPL Researcher, Jason Rhodes. </p><p>NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episo ... Show More

<p>Did JWST discover dark stars? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore the dark universe and how learning about dark matter could help uncover the mystery of JWST’s primordial objects with theoretical physicist Katherine Freese.</p><p>NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can lis ... Show More

The Astronomy, Technology, and Space Science News Podcast.<br />SpaceTime Series 25 Episode 89<br />*The ongoing search for Dark Matter<br />Scientists have placed new limits on where the mysterious invisible substance known as dark matter could be hiding.<br />*Another win for M ... Show More

A rocket launch, super-massive black holes and ghost particles! This past week’s scientific findings are testament to how hard-at-work cosmologists and physicists have been seeking out the fundamental building blocks of our universe and the rules that govern it. Professor of Cosm ... Show More

Dan and Shalma have a candid conversation about the state of dark matter research, and the ways the field has changed over the last few years.For exclusive ask-us-anything episodes, join us for just $3 a month on Patreon: https://patreon.com/whythisuniverse. Our merch is availabl ... Show More

Could we detect exoplanets outside of the Milky Way? Could the Euclid Telescope disprove what we know about dark energy and matter? Are we just pointing telescopes aimlessly at patches of space? And is it possible for two black holes to merge and separate into two branches? Izzie ... Show More

Daniel and Jorge talk about where dark matter is in the Universe. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

The universe that we know, with its luminous stars and orbiting planets, is largely made up of elements we can’t actually see -- like dark energy and dark matter -- and therefore don’t fully understand. Theoretical physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein takes us inside the search for ... Show More

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer. This episode is a remix ... Show More

Embark on an astronomical odyssey with SpaceTime Series 27 Episode 48, as we unveil the most detailed view of the expanding universe to date. The first-year data from DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument survey, is in, and it's changing the cosmic game. This groundbreak ... Show More