PhysicsCentral: Podcasts

A slice of meteorite has a lot to say about where it came from, if you know how to listen!

The DASCH initiative, "Digital Access to a Sky-Century at Harvard", seeks to scan and upload tens of thousands of photographic plates, creating a comprehensive record of what the night sky has looked like over the past hundred years.

From the physics behind Thor's Hammer to the beautiful black hole renderings of Interstellar, science has a lot to offer the film industry and vice versa. What does it take to pull off a successful collaboration?

New satellite tracks Earth's changing climate from variations in its gravity.

Join us on a three part tour of the physics behind wine making and tasting.

Learn how two undergraduate students made their own makeshift muon detector out of a digital camera.

California may not be at risk of sliding into the ocean, but how realistic are disaster movie earthquakes? Geologists gave us the scoop on Hollywood earthquakes in anticipation for this summer's disaster flick: San Andreas.

How entropy explains how perpetual motion machines are impossible, why buildings crumble and the ultimate dark fate of the universe.

How entropy explains how perpetual motion machines are impossible, why buildings crumble and the ultimate dark fate of the universe.

How do falling cats always land on their feet? Physicists have been uncovering the answer with some help from a robocat.