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Award-winning science fiction author Jack McDevitt discusses how we can imagine a universe where human space travel is not limited to the speed of light, and our civilization can explore the galaxy and beyond.

We ask Caity from our Charles Hayden Planetarium what the universe's speed limit is, and how that limits our ability to explore the beyond the solar system.

Did life ever exist on Mars? The Perseverance rover is working hard to find out by studying rocks on Mars, and we ask NASA geologist Katie Stack Morgan which rocks could tell us definitively that Earth is not the only living planet in the universe.

What happened when inadvertent thruster firing caused the International Space Station to spin completely around in July 2021? And what is the future of this decades-old orbiting laboratory?

It turns out that all tortoises are turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises - we go to museum educator Karen to tell us how to spot the difference as well as learn about the amazing adaptations of both.

We ask Pascal Cotte, an engineer who specializes in light, how his multi-spectral camera has unveiled Leonardo's methods when painting the famous Mona Lisa.

We ask leading paleontologist Dr. Jingmai O'Connor to tell us everything she knows about feathered dinosaurs.

We talk with graduate student Markia Smith about her research in cancer and genetics, understanding health disparities in historically marginalized populations, and why she chose these areas of study.

We ask Lauren Etter from Boston University about how efforts to build trust and ensure equitable access to healthcare led to the development of an artificial intelligence system that uses images of ears to identify patients in remote communities.

Part Two of our conversation with shark researcher Dr. Catalina Pimiento, where we find out why this fifty foot long super-predator disappeared from the oceans.

We ask shark researcher Dr. Catalina Pimiento all of the best questions we've ever received about megalodon, a prehistoric fifty-foot-long shark with teeth the size of a human hand.

Graduate student Katie Burns tells us about her adventures in field research and the importance of pollinators in our environment.

It's National Engineers Week! To celebrate, we talked with Apollo engineer Don Eyles about the challenge of landing humans on the moon.

Spaceflight whiz Kellie Gerardi, author of the new book 'Not Necessarily Rocket Science', tells us about her adventures in the aerospace industry.

We finish counting down our picks for the ten most exciting, important, and awe-inspiring stories from the world of science in 2020.

We're back with more of our annual countdown of the ten most exciting, important, and fun stories from the world of science in 2020.

Author Janice Nimura details the lives of Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell, who paved the way for women to study and practice medicine in 1800s America.

We continue our annual countdown of the ten most exciting, important, and fun stories from the world of science in 2020 with #8, #7, and #6.

We kick off our annual countdown of the ten most exciting, important, and awesome stories from the world of science in 2020.

With the first COVID-19 vaccines rolling out to frontline healthcare workers, we asked Physician Assistant Amanda Stearns what it was like to receive her first dose.

We ask Caity from our planetarium all about stars that run out of fuel and go supernova in explosions that can be seen clear across the universe.

How do we know how sight first evolved if eyes don't fossilize? For some ancient organisms, they do! Dr. Brigitte Schoenemann shares her research on trilobite fossils from nearly half a billion years ago that tell us about the origins of vision.

We ask one of our animal keepers, Christa, all about our Cotton-Top Tamarin monkeys and how the Museum of Science is participating in the effort to conserve this critically endangered species.

Biomedical Engineer Dr. Parag Gad tells us about a noninvasive technique that can help paralyzed patients regain the use of their extremities as well as other systems of the body.

Physicist Dr. Billy Hubbard tells us how designing the world's smallest 'refrigerator', a thousand times thinner than a human hair, may lead to more efficient cooling of scientific instruments.