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Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler, a former Division-I college football player turned PhD astrophysicist, science communicator, author, and professor of physics and astrobiology. Science is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for understanding reality. From the cosmos above us to the questions that shape our daily lives, every discovery offers a new way to see the world. Through deep dives, interviews, conversations, and curiosity-driven storytelling, Dr. Starkid explores the ideas, discoveries, and mysteries that capture our imagination and expand our understanding of the universe. Featuring scientists, researchers, creators, and other fascinating minds, the show examines everything from space exploration and the search for life to the scientific discoveries reshaping how we understand ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
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- 3 days ago1h 3m
Has Science Confirmed Any Spiritual Beliefs?
What has science confirmed that people once understood as a spiritual belief? Someone asked me that recently, and it turned into a much bigger conversation about what I believe and why. Expect to learn how the elements in our bodies connect us to the history of the universe, how those ingredients get recycled here on Earth, and how common ancestry connects us to other living things. I explain why I find personal meaning in those discoveries, while distinguishing that interpretation from what ...
- Sep 29, 202630 min
Could Earth Life Survive on Enceladus? Inside the Alien Ocean Experiment
Could something alive on Earth survive in the ocean beneath an alien moon’s ice? Researchers tested that question by recreating some of the conditions thought to exist on Enceladus, a small moon of Saturn. The archaea they introduced survived and multiplied under some of those simulated conditions. I wanted to understand how you even design that experiment when the ocean you’re studying is buried beneath ice. We talk through Cassini’s encounters with Enceladus’s plumes, how tidal heating keep...
- Sep 28, 20261h 19m
Sunscreen, Skin Cancer, and How Medical Advice Fails Black Patients | Dr. Adewole Adamson, M.D.
Dr. Adewole Adamson is a board-certified dermatologist and health services researcher at UT Austin’s Dell Medical School. He has co-authored systematic reviews examining UV exposure and skin cancer in people of color. I asked him to come on because his findings challenge something I’ve been told my entire life: that everybody needs sunscreen to prevent skin cancer. UV radiation damages DNA, and its connection to skin cancer is well established in white populations. But Dr. Adamson explains th...
- Sep 24, 202646 min
How Fast Can a Planet Form? The Youngest Planet Ever Discovered
Elias 2-24b is already several times Jupiter’s mass, yet its star system is estimated to be less than a million years old. This episode follows the discovery and asks how a gas giant can grow so massive, so quickly. We cover how astronomers use infrared and radio observations to study young planets, how they estimate ages, and why growing from tiny grains into a giant planet is a bit more complicated than it sounds. We also look at how an early forming giant planet can influence the fut...
- Sep 4, 20261h 37m
Life on Earth Might Have Started on Mars
You might be a Martian. In this installment of the Dr. Starkid astrobiology series, I’m making the case that life on Earth may have actually started on Mars first. This idea does not yet have scientific consensus, but there is a convincing evidence-based argument for what might be the simplest explanation for why life showed up on Earth so early. Expect to learn about panspermia, LUCA, the origin of life, why Mars may have been chemically ready for life before Earth, how early Earth may hav...
- Aug 21, 202657 min
Physics Is At Play In Your Personal Life
Momentum is a basic concept in physics: mass in motion, moving in a particular direction. But it also provides an interesting way to think about how a human life takes shape. In this episode, Dr. Dakotah Tyler starts with the physics of momentum, inertia, conservation laws, and the strange rotations of planets like Uranus and Venus. From there, the conversation moves into biology, energy efficiency, the high metabolic cost of the human brain, learning, automaticity, and why repeated behaviors...
- Aug 20, 202615 min
The Worst Thing You Can Lose Is Hope in Yourself
Dr. Dakotah Tyler reflects on the lowest periods of his life, finding purpose through football, losing that identity after a knee injury, and eventually starting over academically on the path toward a PhD in astrophysics. But the point of the story is the difference between believing in yourself and maintaining hope in yourself. You can doubt whether you’ll succeed. You can get exhausted. You can question whether the path you chose is going to work. But as long as you still have some vision o...
- Aug 17, 202635 min
The Cosmic History of the Atoms Inside You | Astrobiology Series Part IV
Stars do much more than light up the universe. They create the environments where planets form, provide energy to those planets, manufacture new elements through fusion, and eventually return that material to the galaxy where another generation of stars, planets, and potentially life can form. In this episode of the Dr. Starkid astrobiology series, Dr. Dakotah Tyler explains what happens inside stars, why quantum tunneling is necessary for fusion in the Sun, and why more massive stars actuall...
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About Dr. Starkid
Hosted by Dr. Dakotah Tyler, a former Division-I college football player turned PhD astrophysicist, science communicator, author, and professor of physics and astrobiology. Science is one of humanity’s most powerful tools for understanding reality. From the cosmos above us to the questions that shape our daily lives, every discovery offers a new way to see the world. Through deep dives, interviews, conversations, and curiosity-driven storytelling, Dr. Starkid explores the ideas, discoveries, and mysteries that capture our imagination and expand our understanding of the universe. Featuring scientists, researchers, creators, and other fascinating minds, the show examines everything from space exploration and the search for life to the scientific discoveries reshaping how we understand ourselves and our place in the cosmos.
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