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Science Frisson

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Science Frisson

Ripley Media
NASA's Curious Universe

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NASA's Curious Universe

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Lost Women of Science

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Lost Women of Science

Lost Women of Science
More or Less

4

More or Less

BBC Radio 4
Life

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Life

Life
Hidden Brain

6

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam

30/06/2020

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Épisode 2 - Hisashi Ouchi, l'homme le plus irradié au monde

Le 10 septembre 1999, aux alentours de 10h du matin, la petite ville paisible de Tokaï-Mura, au Japon, est sonnée par un incident qui va marquer à jamais l’esprit de ses habitants. L’accident s’est produit au bureau de JCO, une installation de traitement du combustible nucléaire non loin de là, dans la préfecture d'Ibaraki. Une réaction de criticité au sein d’un silo d’uranium a engendré une réaction de fission nucléaire incontrôlée. Au moment de l’accident, 4 personnes sont en contact direct avec le silo et reçoivent une dose massive de radiations. Parmi-eux : Ouchi Hisashi, un homme de 35 ans, mari et père de famille d’un fils de 8 ans. Ouchi ne le sait pas encore, mais à ce moment précis, il vient d’être soumis à la plus forte dose de radiation jamais reçu par un être humain. Sa lutte pour sa survie vient de commencer. Abonnez vous à Ripley Media sur les réseaux sociaux pour découvrir pleins d'autres émissions autour de la science !

30/06/2020

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29 min
SEASON 11, EPISODE 2

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Artemis II: Meet the Moonbound Astronauts

This year, four NASA astronauts will fly around the Moon and back for the first time since the Apollo program. Their mission is called Artemis II. It’s a key test flight that will set the stage for humans to land on the lunar South Pole for the first time and set up a long-term presence there. In this episode, meet your intrepid Artemis II crew: commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen. For Artemis II news and the latest launch information, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii

S11, E2

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52 min
SEASON 11, EPISODE 6

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Artemis II: The Ground Teams Powering NASA's Moon Mission

Behind NASA’s Artemis II mission and the astronauts who will fly around the Moon, teams on the ground are essential. Explore some of the epic equipment that makes Artemis II possible—the mobile launcher, crawler-transporter, and NASA’s barge Pegasus—and meet a few of the many specialists who act as the shoulders lifting astronauts into space. For Artemis II news and the latest launch information, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii

S11, E6

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33 min
SEASON 11, EPISODE 1 TRAILER

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Launching Soon: Artemis II

This year, four NASA astronauts are flying around the Moon and back—and Curious Universe is bringing you along for the ride. The mission is called Artemis II. It’s a key test flight that will set the stage for future missions to land on the lunar South Pole for the first time and set up a long-term presence there. In this limited series, get to know your Artemis II astronaut crew, go behind the scenes at NASA facilities across the country and discover the teamwork, passion and problem-solving fueling humanity’s return to the Moon—and beyond. For Artemis II news and the latest launch information, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii

Season 11, Episode 1 Trailer

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4 min
SEASON 11, EPISODE 5

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Artemis II: How NASA Will Study the Moon—And the Astronauts Going There

During Artemis II, four astronauts will see the lunar surface as few humans have—and possibly, parts of the Moon’s far side that no one has seen before. Learn what lunar science questions NASA hopes to answer through the astronauts' eyes with lunar geologist Kelsey Young. And those astronauts will also be subjects of science. Jancy McPhee, associate chief scientist of NASA’s Human Research Program, explains how studying human health on Artemis II will prepare us for exploration deeper into space than ever before. For Artemis II news and the latest launch information, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii

S11, E5

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53 min
SEASON 11, EPISODE 4

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Artemis II: Inside NASA’s New Ride to the Moon

During Artemis II, humans will fly Orion—NASA’s next-generation spaceship designed to take us to the Moon and beyond—for the first time. Tour Orion with Branelle Rodriguez, the vehicle manager for Artemis II, to hear about the support systems that keep astronauts alive and how exactly you use the bathroom en route to the Moon. Then, pop the hood of NASA’s most powerful rocket, the Space Launch System, with David Beaman, one of its key architects. For Artemis II news and the latest launch information, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii

S11, E4

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35 min
SEASON 11, EPISODE 3

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What NASA Learned From Launching Artemis I

In 2022, NASA launched Artemis I, an uncrewed test flight of the rocket and spacecraft that will send humans to the Moon. Go inside Firing Room 1—the nerve center for Artemis launches—and hear from the engineers who launched Artemis I, including the intricate procedures they developed just to fuel the rocket correctly. Now NASA is preparing to launch Artemis II—and to send humans around the Moon. For Artemis II news and the latest launch information, visit nasa.gov/artemis-ii

S11, E3

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29 min
12 FEB

8

Layers of Brilliance: The Air She Breathed -- Episode Three

The only woman in a laboratory filled with men, Katharine Burr Blodgett soon becomes indispensable as an assistant to The General Electric Company’s most famous scientist, Irving Langmuir. Their working relationship is an elegant symbiosis: her forte is experimentation, his is scientific theory. We follow their partnership as they successfully find ways to build a better lightbulb but Langmuir stumbles with an off-the-wall theory of matter. All the while, Katharine builds her life in Schenectady: going to church, making new friends, falling in love. In 1924, she embarks on a new journey to the University of Cambridge, where she studies with some of the most prominent physicists of the 20th century. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

12 Feb

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40 min
24 JAN

9

Is Greenland as big as Africa?

The vast island of Greenland has found itself at the centre of a geopolitical crisis. But a little bit of geography can help us see the situation in a new light. YouTuber and map expert Jay Foreman explains how Mercator maps - the maps that the vast majority of us use to understand the world - contain necessary but massive distortions and hugely exaggerate the size of the Arctic island. So, why is making a flat map of a round globe so difficult? Why did we end up with a problematic map in the first place? And are there any alternatives? Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Nathan Gower Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: James Beard

24 Jan

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9 min
15 JAN

10

Layers of Brilliance

Introducing Layers of Brilliance, a six-part season that brings to life the story of a woman whose discoveries in materials science quietly shape our everyday world – but whose legacy was long eclipsed by the famous scientist she worked with. In 1918, at just twenty years old, Katharine Burr Blodgett arrived at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, New York – a place known as the House of Magic. There she began a decades-long collaboration with Irving Langmuir, GE’s star scientist, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. While Langmuir became a public figure, Blodgett became something else: the mind and hands behind experiments so delicate they operated at the scale of single molecules. Blodgett’s work on films just one molecule thick would lead to multiple U.S. patents and form the basis of technologies embedded in today’s screens, optics, and electronics. Listen as we peel back the layers of Katharine Burr Blodgett’s life – how she made groundbreaking science inside a world built for men, how she struggled against profound personal challenges, and how a woman whose work helped shape modern materials science nearly disappeared from history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

15 Jan

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2 min