Science/Technology

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The Price Of Having A Nuclear Arsenal

Airs at: Thu, 10/06/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
  Broken arrows --- The secret history of nuclear weapons accidents --- Host: Dr. Michio Kaku, popular physicist, scientist and speaker, professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books about phy... Read more

Old Growth Forests, Wildfire and Climate Chaos

Airs at: Mon, 10/03/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
Even though there are no large fires burning close to Portland this summer, you can still smell the smoke from all the megafires burning from British Columbia to Northern California. This is the new reality we are facing, a confluence of climate chaos, exacerbated by loggin... Read more

Big Bang and DNA Theories

Airs at: Wed, 09/28/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  The Big Bang and origin of universe --- DNA traces evolution of humanity --- Host: Dr. Michio Kaku, popular physicist, scientist and speaker, professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku is the author of several books ab... Read more

Skeptic Check: New UFO Evidence

Airs at: Wed, 09/21/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  It was a shocker of a story, splashed across the New York Times front page: The existence of a five-year long, hidden Pentagon investigation of UFOs. With two-thirds of the American public convinced that aliens are visiting Earth, could this study finally provide the pro... Read more

Big Picture Science Radio

  Big Picture Science is a weekly, one-hour radio show and podcast produced at the SETI Institute. Hosted by Seth Shostak, SETI Institute Fellow and Senior Astronomer, and science journalist Molly Bentley, Big Picture Science reports on modern science and technology with s... Read more

Charles Seife on fusion power; Neal Shubin on his human evolution theory

Airs at: Wed, 09/14/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Guests: Dr. Charles Seife talks about the prospects for fusion energy; and Dr. Neil Shubin on our evolution from the fishes   Host: Dr. Michio Kaku, popular physicist, scientist and speaker, professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Gradu... Read more

Internet of Things; Food Foraging and Medicinal Plants

Airs at: Fri, 09/09/2022 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  11:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Internet Of Things For the past 30 years or so, the Internet has changed our lives in ways we could not have imagined. It connected 7.5 billion people together regardless of time or distance. But we ain't seen nothing yet. The Internet of Things has... Read more

Aliens in space, robots, the future

Airs at: Wed, 08/31/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  Seth Shostak talks about aliens in space. -- Ray Kurzweil talks about robots and the future. -- Host: Dr. Michio Kaku -- exploration -- mkaku.org -- Released on 08-29-2022         Read more

The Last Days of the Dinosaurs encore

Airs at: Mon, 08/29/2022 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
    THIS PROGRAM ORIGINALLY AIRED ON JUNE 27, 2022 Sixty-six million years ago an asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. More than half of known species, including the dinosaurs, vanished seemingly over... Read more

Exploration, with Michio Kaku

Airs at: Wed, 08/24/2022 at 7:00pm - 8:00pm
  *Black Hole photographed in galaxy *UFO and UAP to be investigated by Congress *Guest: Dr. Fulvia Melia on black holes   -- Explorations is an hour long radio program on science, technology, politics, and the environment. Topics covered include black holes, time travel,... Read more