This week, Sam Ebertz and Ryan Rampersad, along with guest Matthew Petschl, discuss the lost chance to see a great meteor shower, a professor beating the law with physics, what it means to be a 100-megaton bomb, Shuttle Discovery’s final flight, an impressive new future for space exploration from Planetary Resources, and more!
Links
- Phage Wars
- Elliptic curve cryptography
- Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory
- Everything you need to know to catch this weekend’s Lyrid meteor shower
- SlashGear
- Global warming mystery: Some Himalayan glaciers getting bigger
- Egg-Laying Led to Dinosaurs’ Extinction, Scientists Say
- Nanotechnology could recover energy
- Explosion, fireball reported in Nevada, California likely to be meteor?
- This insanely sinister infographic illustrates the power of the world’s strongest nuke
- Pacific Reef Sharks Vanishing Near Populated Islands
- Space shuttle Discovery takes a few victory laps
- ‘Peng Peng’: Scientists Clone Sheep With ‘Good’ Fat From Worm
- Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
- Mystery company backed by James Cameron and Google executives may be an asteroid mining project
- Video: Planetary Resources, Inc. Press Conference, April 24, 2012 (Part 1 of 8)
- Verdict on asteroid mining: ‘No bull!’
- Prometheus (film)
