PhysicsCentral: Podcasts

You may think space is empty, but just outside Earth's atmosphere lies an area teeming with activity.

This week's PhysicsCentral podcast dives into the fluid dynamics that govern collective motion, like schools of fish and... Read more

Meg interviews Wylie Overstreet, whose recent viral hit video "To Scale: The Solar System" gives us a glimpse of what th... Read more

Does old cathedral glass really flow over time? Mike investigates this myth and more mysteries surrounding this peculiar... Read more

Scientists are using carbon nanotubes to detect cancer cells in the bloodstream. The nanotube device is about the size o... Read more

Calla investigates several surprising instances of math in nature, from rabbit breeding to plant DNA.Read more on this p... Read more

Using particle detectors across the world, physicists are tracking neutrinos emitted from supernovae to better track and... Read more

Join us on a three part tour of the physics behind wine making and tasting.

This week's PhysicsCentral podcast takes a deeper look at the more notable name-drops in the new film The Martian.

Birds have an amazing, innate ability to sense where magnetic north lies, and scientists think they're closer than ever ... Read more

The DASCH initiative, "Digital Access to a Sky-Century at Harvard", seeks to scan and upload tens of thousands of photog... Read more

History and physics enthusiasts can now rejoice as the U.S. government has commissioned the Manhattan Project National H... Read more

A slice of meteorite has a lot to say about where it came from, if you know how to listen!

Learn how two undergraduate students made their own makeshift muon detector out of a digital camera.

From the physics behind Thor's Hammer to the beautiful black hole renderings of Interstellar, science has a lot to offer... Read more

How do falling cats always land on their feet? Physicists have been uncovering the answer with some help from a robocat.

Can we smell a snowstorm before it begins? On today's podcast, were joined by olfactory scientist Pamela Dalton, a resea... Read more

Join Meg Rosenburg on a journey from the jagged, active slopes of Kilauea to the "artificial lava" lab at Syracuse Unive... Read more

Explore the physics that makes film projection possible in all of its various forms.

Outside our galaxy, there's a gigantic gas cloud drifting in our direction. It'll collide with the galaxy in about 30 mi... Read more