Uma série de conversas que traz narrativas inspiradoras, pessoas, coletivos e organizações que já estão pulsando em uma nova economia regenerativa, justa e próspera
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We hear amazing questions in the exhibit halls of the Museum of Science, Boston. Do woodpeckers get headaches? How many colors are in the rainbow? Who gets to drive the Mars rovers? Pulsar features short interviews with our education staff along with scientists, engineers, and experts from around the world in order to find the answers.
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Rick Pulsar is the only space adventure comedy podcast on the Net. Join Rick, His alien sidekick Rufus, his home-made robot gear loose, and his mother as they spread space adventure throughout the galaxy. Each episode of Rick Pulsar: Galactic Knight of Space Justice is between 5 and ten minutes long. The crew encounters all manner of threats in the cosmos, such as Space Yoko Onos and rap battles with socially conservative nebulas. Listeners are invited to become union Space Knights by signin ...
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Who Imagines/Builds/Tests the Museum's Exhibits?
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Mike Horvath, the Director of Exhibits at the Museum of Science, details the process of imagining and creating an exhibit and how it can lead to wearing a wookiee costume on the mound at Fenway Park.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Should I Do with My Extra Eclipse Glasses?
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We chat about all of the options that you have for keeping, donating, or recycling eclipse glasses after April's total solar eclipse.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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When Is the Next Eclipse? 2024-2026 Edition
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With the Great American Eclipse of 2024 in the rear view mirror, we look ahead to the next three years of solar and lunar eclipses visible from Boston and around the globe.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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How Do You Tag a Great White Shark? What Does The Tag Tell Us?
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Dr. Greg Skomal, a shark expert with the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries, discusses the incredible data that shark tags can give us as well as the process of finding and tagging great white sharks off of Cape Cod.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Our triceratops fossil, Cliff, did not live in New England. So what kind of dinosaurs did? We ask two local experts, Mark Agostini and Dr. Mark McMenamin, to tell us what fossils have been recovered from our own backyard.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Is It Like to Experience a Total Solar Eclipse?
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With a total solar eclipse coming up on April 8th, 2024, we ask planetarium educator Talia what it feels like to actually witness the moon totally blocking the sun.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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We celebrate the 30th anniversary of a daring Space Shuttle mission that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope by chatting about the experience with astronaut Jeff Hoffman.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Kind of Space Research Happens Here in Massachusetts?
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Dr. Supriya Chakrabarti, the Director of UMass Lowell's Center for Space Science and Technology, explains some of the exciting space research and engineering that is happening right here in our backyard.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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We ask marine mammal odontologist Dr. Martin Nweeia about one of the most amazing teeth anywhere in the animal kingdom and get the full story of the narwhal and its ten-foot tusk.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Is It Like to Look Down at the Earth from Space?
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One of the more hopeful results of human spaceflight has been the Overview Effect, when astronauts feel the awe in looking down at our home planet while orbiting above. NASA Astronaut Bob Hines details his experience earthgazing from the International Space Station in 2022.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Maybe the most frequent questions we have gotten this century at the museum is what people can do personally to mitigate the effects of climate change. Frank Lowenstein from Rare's Climate Culture Boston gives a short list of big-impact actions.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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There are an astonishing number of ant species living on our planet. One of the world's foremost experts on ants, Dr. Susanne Foitzik, explains how their society is different from ours in many ways.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Are Sci-Fi Authors Scientists or Writers?
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There are so many amazing writers of science fiction. When they were young, did they dream of bring famous authors, or amazing scientists? Author Katie Slivensky shares her journey through the worlds of science and fiction.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Last month, MIT's Kishalay De published the first ever observations of a star destroying a planet. Hear about the detective work it took to realize what some of the world's largest telescopes were seeing as this cataclysmic event unfolded.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Do You Mean, That Isn’t a Dinosaur?
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The word 'dinosaur' refers to a specific group of animals. Many animals get included under the dinosaur umbrella when they are actually from different groups. Becca from our programs team helps us set the fossil record straight.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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How Do Spacecraft Move Around the Solar System?
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Talia from our planetarium team talks about calculating the most efficient trajectories for spacecraft in order to get to interesting places from Mercury to Pluto and beyond.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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How Many Moons Are There In The Solar System?
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With 62 new moons announced last week, Talia from our Charles Hayden Planetarium tells us how Saturn is once again the grand champion of the solar system in terms of natural satellites.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Volcanoes are incredibly powerful, but what causes one to form? Becca from our programs team talks about the origins of these explosive entities.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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With so many stories in the news about the new capabilities of artificial intelligence, Emily from the museum's programs team explains what that term means and how AI works.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Why Is It Important To Look For Life On Mars?
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Dr. Michael Meyer has been the lead scientist for NASA's Mars Exploration Program for over 25 years. He tells us what the possibility of life on the red planet would mean for science and our understanding of the universe.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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I Found This Strange Rock...Is It A Meteorite?
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We ask Dr. Ben Weiss, an MIT expert on meteorites, how to spot the difference between rocks that formed on Earth and ones that fell from space.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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I Think I Saw a Right Whale! Who Should I Call?
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North Atlantic Right Whales are critically endangered. We chat with Tim Cole and Lieutenant Christopher Licitra from NOAA Fisheries about efforts to identify, track, and conserve this fragile population.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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In part two of our conversation with evolutionary biologist Dr. Nancy Simmons, we discuss the astonishing diversity of bats and how they came to dominate Earth's night skies.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Bats are the only mammals in Earth's history to achieve powered flight. We ask evolutionary biologist Dr. Nancy Simmons how bats gained this ability and why.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What’s a Typical Day Like for a Mars Rover?
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Kim Steadman, an engineer who operates the Perseverance Mars rover, details the how, when, what, and why behind our incredible discoveries on Mars.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Boston Has A City Archaeology Program? What Does It Do?
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Joe Bagley has been Boston's City Archeologist for over a decade. He shares some of the historic science that his department uncovers all around Beantown.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What’s So Special About Gold, Anyway?
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The metal gold has been highly valued by humans throughout our history, but what makes it so unique? Museum educator Colin gives us insight into its amazing properties, from its cosmic origins to its use in some of the most advanced technology humans have ever created.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Hurricane Hunters Part Three: Why Fly Though A Hurricane?
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For the exciting conclusion of our series on NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft, we ask meteorologist Nikki Hathaway how flights through tropical storms can give us insight into their origins, mechanics, and perhaps most importantly, their trajectories.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Hurricane Hunters Part Two: How Do You Study A Hurricane From Inside Of It?
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We continue our series on NOAA's Hurricane Hunter aircraft with aerospace engineer Nick Underwood, who flies on missions through hurricanes and collects data to study their behavior and predict their movement.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Hurricane Hunters Part One: Can A Plane Really Fly Through A Hurricane?
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NOAA aircraft scout out hurricanes that may threaten the United States by flying aircraft over and even right through them. We ask Lieutenant Commander Kevin Doremus what it's like to pilot an airplane through the eyewall of a massive storm.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What’s Next for the Museum of Science?
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For our hundredth episode, we're joined by the Museum of Science's president, Tim Ritchie, to answer one of the most common questions we are asked: what exciting things are coming up in the museum's future?Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What’s Your Favorite Unsolved Space Mystery?
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Sometimes the most exciting thing to talk about is what scientists don't know...yet. Georgia from our programs team tells us about the mystery of fast radio bursts, and how scientists are getting closer to explaining their origin.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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How Do We Know What Extinct Animals Ate?
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We can learn a lot about animals that lived millions of years ago from studying their fossils. Morgan from our education team explains how we can analyze fossil teeth to tell us amazing things about ancient diets.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Will Any Stars In Our Sky Explode Soon?
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We chat with astronomy graduate student Daisuke Taniguchi about his clever method of looking back in time at the peculiar behavior of the star Betelgeuse, which will explode and disappear from our skies (relatively) soon.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Do You Get To Choose Which Animals to Work With?
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We have over one hundred species of animals living at the museum. Visitors often ask our educators: are you assigned an animal for a live show, or do you get to pick your partner? Lauren from our programs team tells us more about the process of selecting and getting to know our live animal co-stars.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What’s The Most Powerful Rocket Ever, as of 2022?
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We ask NASA's Jay Hollenbeck about the Space Launch System, a towering new rocket that will soon launch humans on a path back to the moon while claiming the title of most powerful rocket ever built.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Are snakes all tail? Or do they not even have tails? We ask museum educator and snake superfan Becca about snake anatomy as well as some of our most frequently received snake questions, such as: Why is that snake sticking its tongue out? And: Is that snake venomous?Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Can Ancient Sea Level Rise Prepare Us for the Future?
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We talk with geologist and climate scientist Dr. Patrick Nunn, who has studied the history of sea level rise and its effect on human civilizations.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Happens When the Sun Runs Out of Fuel?
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We talk with astronomer Dr. Joshua Blackman about the fate of the Earth at the very end of our solar system, when the sun will render our planet quite uninhabitable.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Where Do the Museum‘s Animals Come From?
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With over 100 species of animals living here at the museum, visitors are always asking how they got here. We chat with Stacy, the Curator of our Live Animal Care Center, to get the whole story.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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What Happens If You Stick Your Finger in a Venus Fly Trap?
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Carnivorous plants exist all around the world. People sometimes ask us, why do they need to eat bugs? And...what happens if I stick my finger in one?Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Allergies to food are becoming more common and more severe in modern times. We talk with members of the Food Allergy Science Initiative to discuss why that is, as well as the scientific work being done right now that may one day lead to a cure for food allergies.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Marcus from our education team gives us the scoop on all of the speed records in the animal kingdom - land, sea, air, and more.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Could the Earth Be Destroyed by a Black Hole?
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If a black hole came wandering through the solar system, would we notice? We're joined by the Bad Astronomer, Dr. Phil Plait, to chat about the possibility of Earth meeting its end via gravitational catastrophe.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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We get tons of questions about plants - what's the biggest one? The largest flower? Why do leaves change color in the autumn? We go to Sue from our education team to dig up the answers.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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How Can Artificial Intelligence Help Us Learn?
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We ask Dr. Sidney D'Mello, a cognitive and computer scientist, about his AI-assisted research on the connection between our emotions and how we learn.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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How Often Do You Brush a Triceratops Fossil’s Teeth?
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Taking care of our 65 million-year-old Triceratops fossil is a delicate task. We ask Katie from our Collections department how, and how often, it gets cleaned.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Dr. Ashish Jha, Part Two: When Will the Pandemic End?
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We connect live with pandemic expert Dr. Ashish Jha and pose our most asked coronavirus question: when will the pandemic be over?Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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Dr. Ashish Jha, Part One: How Did the Pandemic Start?
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We feature an 'interview' with our virtual exhibit, Covid Conversations with Dr. Ashish Jha, to discover the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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The indoor sparks we create in our Theater of Electricity are purple, and visitors often ask what causes the color. We explore the reasons behind different shades of lightning.Bởi The Museum of Science, Boston
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