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Laura & Emma take on one of the biggest question that humanity will potentially face as our civilization evolves and advances to a more technologically advanced stage : Is there life outside of earth? What forms can it take? how would we be able to detect it? will we be able to communicate with it? Listen and find as my two students go through all the possibilities and make an attempt at one o...

No biggie this episode, just THE END OF THE UNIVERSE !! Mathis and Marguerite take us on a journey from the start of the universe to the end. They tell us about how physicists and cosmologist think about the problem, how they use the concept of entropy to give time a direction. And then they go through all the various possible outcomes we have come up with so far : from the heat death of the unive...

Have you heard of Biophysics? It's a relatively modern and new domain of physics, wherein physics tries to deal with unsolved problems in biology. Anastasia & Sebastian are going to start off our 4th season with an in-depth look at this newest branch of physics, and go into some details about some applications of it, particularly in biomedical physics. Enjoy and dont forget to send us your com...

That's right, we're about to start our 4th season of Physics Bytes ! My junior and senior students have given it their all for a series of fantastic episodes. Come and learn about Biophysics, forensic science, Nuclear technology, among many other topics ... including .. The End of the Universe ! And then our juniors had a year long project and research on our "New Energies" proje...

As long as things have been falling to the ground, humans have asked "why?" We take a voyage this week through history, from the time of the Greeks, to the post-renaissance era of Kepler, and Galileo and Newton, only to land in the 20th century where Einstein et al. turned the physics world on its head. And we finish up with some wild and woolly theories describing the universe as being...

What's with physicists and putting "Dark" in front of everything? After the last episode on science fiction, we're going to plunge right back into hardcore physics - even though it might seem like science fiction - thanks to our two guests. Domitille and Jeanne, who will go into great depths explaining to us the origins of these two weird and fascinating theories, and how far we...

Science Fiction, as a literary genre, is rather young and has long not been taken as seriously as other genres. It is primarily a post-industrial revolution and technology-driven creation. This has changed a great amount over past few decades. As it has matured, it has become the perfect arena for humanity to look at itself as a society and as a species and wonder about what the consequences of ou...

Is there life elsewhere in the Universe .. ? If yes .... then where ? ... can we detect it one day? .... is it intelligent? .... is it dangerous? ... Will we make contact in our lifetime ... ? These are just a few of the questions that our two senior students, Suzanne and Victoire, are going to answer, amongst many more, as we kick off our series of talks by our senior students. SETI is the Search...

And to finish our wonderful series on Carbon Emissions Mathis, Myriam, Alexandre and Maelys are going to talk about another big sector of human activity, industry. They break it down to 4 main industries, how they are each contributing to our increasing human emissions, and what we can do to help. Along the way we learn about the disastrous effects of "fast fashion", about how A.I. might...

As we near the end of our series on Carbon Emissions, one of the sectors of human activity which we dont usually associate with carbon emissions is going to come into light : waste management. Our modern societies generation an incredible amount of waste. Colombe, Sebastian and Raphael are going to go into depth about the various aspects of human generated waste, about our complex relationship to...

Did you know that if concrete production was a country, it would be the 3rd biggest emitter of carbon IN THE WORLD! Buildings are part of makes us human, our need for shelter, but they're also one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions in our society today. Luca, Rayan, Rose and Noe will tell why this is the case, where all this carbon is coming from and most importantly, how can we reduce...

Is flying around in an airplane that bad? Are electric cars goign to save the climate? Which is the guiltiest part of all between Air, maritime and land transport? These questions and a LOT more are what our students this week goign to try and answer. Pauline, Vadim, Clémence and Lola are going answer those questions, as well as a lot more in their interview on the Carbon footprint of our transpor...

How much of humanity's carbon emissions come from agriculture? What is it in the agriculture sector that produces so much green house gas? Is there any way we can keep feeding humanity and yet produce less carbon emissions? What sacrifices are you ready to make when it comes to your diet? Marion, Emma, Marguerite and Lily try to answer these questions and much much more. A fascinating episode...

In this, the second episode on our "Carbon Emissions" series, we turn our attention to one of the most ubiquitous things in our daily lives : the internet. Anastasia, Victor, Etienne and Luisa go through all the various ways the internet and everything linked to the internet - manufacturing of devices, storage in data centers and our own behaviour - contribute to the internet's carbo...

The first episode of the "Carbon Emissions" series from our junior students. In this episode Garance, Carla, Laura and Jeanne tell us why the energy sector is far anda way the most important and polluting sector of human activity when it comes to Carbon Emissions and carbon footprint. But that is only the start ! Listen to the whole episode in order to find out not only where all that ca...

It's that time of year, when a new season of Physics Bytes ! is about to start. Yay, joy, youpi ... Ok, ok, hold on to your own horses, this is just a brief trailer for the upcoming season, but listen to find out all the goodies that we have in store for you in the coming months! Enjoy !

So having overcome many of the obstacles so far, reachign the moon, building a habitat, finding ways to produce water oxygen and food, we are in good shape, right? But we have to find a way of producing energy to feed all these needs! Flore, Domitille and Clara are going to tell us what our options are. Don't be surprised if you hear the word "regolith" yet again in this episode!

Reaching the Moon? Check Building a habitat on the Moon? Check Now what ? Well for one thing, it'd be nice to be able to actually stay alive up there! We will need water, we will need food, we will need oxygen...!! Thankfully Suzanne, Victoria, Roxane and Theodora are here to tell us how we will manage that! In one of our most information-rich presentation these four grade eleven student will...

So, let's assume that we've managed to solve the problem of getting to the moon and back, as we talked about in the last episode. Now we need to find a way of building a human habitat and a base on the moon. That is the task that three new students Edgar, Gaspard and Louis accepted, and here are some of the solutions they found, as they disucss the pros and cons of everything from a big Bi...

We are finally here, our grade 11 project : Destination Moon ! In this, the first episode of the 5-part series, we talk about the first and maybe the biggest issue of all : how to get to the moon as well as how to come back. They talk about a lot of different technologies, everythign from a Slingshot to the moon, to a Space Elevator! I personally learned a lot and I hope you do too. And stay tuned...

In this, our final episode of the season for our senior (grade 12) students, Louane and Pierre follow up on their wonderful presentation on "Artificial Intellgience" with a long interview, goign through the history of AI, how deep learning neural networks function, to answering philosophical questions about intelligence and the future of humanity and AI. Enjoy !

In the penultimate episode with our Senior students, we have three, Celeste and brothers Oscar & Anatole, talk to us about the interdisciplinary field of Biophysics! It's not easy but they do a great job of giving us a few examples of physics has managed to help the world of biology, with examples like Protein Folding, study of cardiovascular flow, to name a few. Enjoy !

It's been 20 years that we've started to discover and observe planets outside of our own Solar System. Well, Jospehine and Gabriel are here to talk to us about how we've managed to discover the thousands of exoplanets that we've managed to catalogue over that time period, and along the way other questions come up such as, is there life on these planets ... ? Listen to find out!

Is there a more widely known and recognized physicist in popular culture than Albert Einstein? Well probably not, but nevertheless, Camille and Pierre are here to talk to us about the life of this most famous scientists, everything from touching on the scientific research he's most well known for ... to more personal stuff about the young Einstein and Einstein as a father! Enjoy !

Two new students talk to us about one of the mythical figures of the 20th century : the inimitable Richard Feynman. They give us a very brief overview of his life, why he is famous, and Basile resists the urge to try and explain to us without any visual aids what Feynman Diagrams are! Listen and Enjoy!