Episodios

  • Things You Thought You Knew – The Color of the Sun
    Dec 30 2025

    What’s the true color of the sun? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss things you thought you knew about the color of the Sun, the sound of weather, and why friction is our friend.

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    48 m
  • Our Burning Questions – Free Will Emergence
    Dec 26 2025

    What’s the deal with the strong nuclear force? Neil deGrasse Tyson answers the burning questions Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, and the StarTalk Team have been saving all year about gravity as a force, cosmic rays, free will, emergence, and how physicists decide which equations to apply.

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    57 m
  • Cosmic Queries – Space Volcanoes: Fire and Ice with Natalie Starkey
    Dec 23 2025

    What’s a supervolcano? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen discover all types of volcanoes in the solar system with cosmochemist and author of Fire and Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System, Natalie Starkey. Is there such a thing as an ice volcano?

    Originally Aired October 5, 2021.

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    56 m
  • Cosmic Queries – Living in a Simulation with Nick Bostrom
    Dec 19 2025

    Are we in a simulation? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice take a deep dive into simulation theory, consciousness, and free will with Oxford theorist Nick Bostrom. Is this The Matrix?

    Originally Aired December 21, 2021.

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    54 m
  • Origins of Dark Energy with Adam Riess
    Dec 16 2025

    How did scientists discover evidence for dark energy? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Paul Mecurio explore dark energy, Hubble tension, and the beginning and end of the universe with astrophysicist and Nobel laureate, Adam Riess.

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    1 h y 7 m
  • Replaceable You with Mary Roach
    Dec 12 2025

    Are our parts replaceable? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, & Gary O’Reilly sit down with bestselling author Mary Roach, who discusses her newest book, Replaceable You, and the quest to grow organs, build parts, and engineer the human body.

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    51 m
  • Cosmic Queries – Multiverse Nesting Dolls
    Dec 9 2025

    What if our universe is the inside of a black hole… inside another black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Paul Mecurio answer a grab bag of fan questions about black hole mergers, the misconception about gravity assists, and if there’s such a thing as laws of physics.

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    55 m
  • Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox
    Dec 2 2025

    What is truly foundational to the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice welcome particle physicist Brian Cox for a discussion about emergence, particles, consciousness, and the very fabric of spacetime.

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    1 h y 44 m