Take your personal data back with Incogni! Use code APERTUREDEAL at the link below and get 60% off an annual plan: http://incogni.com/aperturedeal The universe is unimaginably large. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies. Each galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars. Around many of those stars are planets. And […]
Alyssa Carson breaks down the strange organisms that can survive conditions humans never could, from tardigrades exposed outside the International Space Station to a black fungus found near Chernobyl that appears to feed on radiation. Danny and Alyssa talk about why that kind of biology could matter for deep space […]
Bill Nye: The Search for Life Begins with Water Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- What conditions are scientists looking for in their search for life on another planet? The presence of water is key, explains Bill Nye. ———————————————————————————- […]
Watch the discussion episode on this topic featuring world-renowned astrobiologist and President of METI (Messaging Extra-Terrestrial Life) Douglas Vakoch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fAgihenxcU Do you ever feel like you’re being watched? Not by a creepy stalker, but by aliens. Yup, it might be happening. Just like we watch animals at the zoo, aliens […]
The gas phosphine, made on Earth by microbial life forms, was found in Venus’ atmosphere. Could this mean there’s life in our planetary neighbor’s clouds? Get the inside story from scientists Sara Seager and Clara Sousa-Silva on how the discovery was made, what it means, and what comes next. Produced […]
If television shows and movies are any indication, we humans spend a lot of our time subconsciously preparing for UFOs carrying maleficent aliens to descend on Earth. Subscribe for free to get all episodes of NOVA Now on Apple Podcasts at https://apple.co/2U5GyYp But should we rush to create an intergalactic […]
Dive deeper and watch our interview with the co-author of the seminal paper in Nature Astronomy, MIT’s Professor Sara Seager: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5Z6yX8F_oA Is alien life really out there? Humanity has wondered about it for decades, and according to scientists, this might finally be a reality. Astronomers have discovered there could be […]
Carbon is the primary building block of all life on Earth. Without it, humans would have no DNA. What if we tried replacing human life with silicon instead of carbon. What would silicon-based humans look and act like? Transcript and sources: https://whatifshow.com/what-if-humans-were-silicon-based-instead-of-carbon-based/ 00:00 Silicon-based life 00:53 Carbon life 02:32 Weak […]
Recap some of our most-watched exoplanet scenarios. Get our 100 best episodes in one mind-blowing book: http://bit.ly/ytc-the-what-if-100-book In this video, we’re looking into some of the latest exoplanet discoveries and their potential implications for astrobiology. Could they be better than Earth? These discoveries could change the way we think about […]
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