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PhysicsCentral: Podcasts American Physical Society
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4.5 • 17 Ratings
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Enjoy the sounds of physics with our podcasts. Always fun and always engaging - just like physics.
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Drag Racing Cubesats with the NASA CubeQuest Challenge
In this edition of the PhysicsCentral podcast, we hear from a few teams who are still in the running for the CubeQuest Challenge: a contest for homegrown teams to build their own small satellites - cubesats - and compete against each other by demonstrating technological feats. Five million dollars in prize money will be divided among teams who can get into orbit around the moon, maintain a stable orbit for a long time, or make it almost all the way to Mars' orbit while still communicating with Earth.
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Star-chaeology: The Next Stellar Generation
Join Dr. Anna Frebel and PhysicsCentral podcast host Meg Rosenburg in a search for the oldest stars in the universe!
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Of Ice Cores and Isotopes
Ice cores contain air bubbles that have been encased for close to a million years! Find out what we can learn from this ancient oxygen in this week's PhysicsCentral podcast!
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The Truth About Gravitational Waves
Host Meg Rosenburg journeys to the Hanford observatory for an exclusive interview with one of the scientists behind LIGO's detection of gravitational waves!
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A New Ninth Planet?
Is there a ninth planet in the solar system lurking somewhere in the inky depths of space? Learn about Vulcan, Planet X, and the history of planetary astronomy in this week's PhysicsCentral podcast!
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Physics and the Smell of Snow
Can we smell a snowstorm before it begins? On today's podcast, were joined by olfactory scientist Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, to explore the physics behind that crisp, snowy scent.
Customer Reviews
Good Podcast, but bad audio
Good material and Good presenters, but when listening through headphones the audio levels are all over the place. The presenters mic will be quiet so you crank up the volume, then without warning a guest speaker clip will blow your eardrums out.
Please get someone to mix audio levels of clips. It is professional to do so, and also polite to the listener.
Short snippets are annoying
This podcast is really trying my patience. Since each podcast episode is so short, it requires too much clicking to get through a decent session, which should be at least 30 min. It seems like half of each episode is the theme music, which sometimes comes in an out after each speaker finishes a sentence. The last straw is the unprofessional audio. Some speakers are so quiet you can’t hear them, especially when the theme music is playing.
Great Podcast
Easy to listen to with simple questions that explain topic thoroughly. Would love to see you come back with new topics.