Born to science podcast Andrey Seryakov

How is life going on an Antarctic station? how physicists study glaciers and extract information about ancient climate? I'm speaking with Helene Hoffmann, she is a physicist from Germany, she studies glaciers and spent more than a year on a German Antarctic station.

00:40 Why do we study glaciers?

2:30 Helene’s trip to the science
3:55 How did Helene end up in an Antarctic station?
4:45 How to get to the crew?
7:10 Stations in Antarctica
7:55 Life and goals of the stations
13:40 How the German station looks like, how it is functioning
13:50 Why does it have legs?
15:10 Antarctic office
16:00 Gender balance
16:55 Competition to get to the crew
18:20 Crew age
19:15 Climate inside and outside
20:30 What happened with the previous stations
21:40 Supply, energy, food
24:25 Internet connection
25:30 Free-time activities
28:00 Boats - no boats
28:27 Polar night and polar day
31:00 Live in isolation and space traveling
35:00 Is it possible to eat penguins?
36:00 Nature, as the most exciting experience
37:24 The second summer
39:05 Back to civilization

41:22 Glaciers, what are they and how do they form?
44:29 Equilibrium line, dying Alp glaciers
45:40 Chronic of climate history. How to study temperature, humidity and volcanic eruptions and atmospheric composition of a distant past?
54:10 Most ancient climate record available to humanity
57:45 how to extract an ice core?
61:00 ice chronic conservation
65:40 Diseases frozen in the ice

I'm speaking with Josh Eby, who is a physicist from Israel, about dark matter. Why do we know it is there? What can it be and what can't? How we are trying to find it.

00:50 How much of dark matter is out there?
1:25 Josh’s journey to the dark matter science?
6:10 Why do we know that there is dark matter?
6:20 Not dark - invisible
7:30 Rotation of galaxies
11:30 Large scale structure of the Universe
14:50 Collision of galaxy clusters (bullet clusters)
18:40 What can’t be dark matter?
18:50 Why it is not an interstellar gas
20:00 Why not small stars or big planets
22:30 Why not neutrino
26:00 why not black holes
32:00 Maybe something is wrong with our understanding of gravity? Modified Newtonian dynamics
35:30 Hypothetical particles which can form dark matter
37:30 WIMPs
43:40 Axions
52:10 Light shining through a wall experiment
54:25 Dark matter stars
58:50 Other ways to search for dark matter
59:00 AMS - particle detector in space
61:40 Dark matter at the Large hadron collider
63:30 Dark matter is a door to the new physics
64:30 Practical implementation of dark matter

Can you imagine how the matter behaved right after the Big Bang?
Consider two atomic nuclei flying toward each other with almost speed of light. What happens if they collide? We create a tiny unstable droplet of the primordial matter.
This matter has nothing in common with the ordinary matter which surrounds us. It is much denser and extremely hot (temperature > 1 000 000 000 000 000 C). The field researching that is called the heavy ion collisions physics, and the matter is called quark-gluon plasma.

This is the second and the last pilot episode of the Born to science podcast and today’s guest is a professor Boris Tomasik. He develops the theory of heavy ion collisions in the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Matej Bel University in Slovakia. We will discuss what quark-gluon plasma is, how we create it and how it behaves. Enjoy!

This episode was supported by the COST-THOR EU programme.

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Welcome to the born to science podcast, the podcast about science and people behind it.
Why do they choose to be scientists? What motivates them?
Today guest: Bradley van Paridon.
He is a freelance science journalist, podcaster and has a Ph.D. in Parasitology.
We will discuss:
1. Parasites - mind manipulation, migration, evolution
2. Science journalism
His stories: https://bvanp213.contently.com
His podcast: Two Brad for you https://twobradforyou.wordpress.com
Enjoy!

This episode was supported by the COST-THOR EU programme.

p.s. This is the first of two pilot episodes. Therefore I would be happy for any feedback from your side. Comments and suggestions are very welcome. You can find me at:
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