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Season 5
A Hundred and Nine Flashes
Today's episode โ S05E190, Thursday September 10, 2026: Main story: 109 fast radio bursts have been used to measure how much galactic feedback has smoothed out the matter in the universe. A fast radio...
The Smallest Things Remember
Everything beyond Neptune is a leftover. The icy bodies of the Kuiper Belt never got assembled into a planet, and out there โ dark, cold and empty enough that things mostly leave each other alone โ th...
The Moon in Five Hours
For fifty years the story has been that the Moon assembled slowly out of a disc of debris. New simulations from Southwest Research Institute add one thing everybody left out โ the strength of rock โ a...
Europe Launches From Europe โ And Two White Dwarfs Six Minutes Apart
A German rocket lifted off from an Arctic island on Saturday and became the first vehicle ever to reach orbit from Western European soil. Plus: the gaps in stellar streams may not be dark matter after...
The Hydrogen Map: How a Radio Telescope Heard Half the Universe
Anna and Avery open the Weekend Wrap with a genuine first: South Africa's MeerKAT has detected the 21-centimetre hydrogen signal from four to five billion light years away using radio data alone โ no ...
One Flash in the Xenon: The Dark Matter Event Nobody Can Explain
Links & sources Brown University โ LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter โ https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-09-01/lz-dark-matter-results US Department of Energy โ LZ Sees Surpr...