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Cannibal Stars

What happens when a star gets hungry? Could it eat another star? Cosmic cannibalism is a thing. 500 million years ago in a galaxy far,...

Baryon Acoustic Oscillations

In the latest episode of ShirtLoads of Science, Dr Karl and discuss Baryon Acoustic Oscillations. If you don't know what they are, then...

Journey into a Nucleus

A new chat with Dr Karl about what you can find when you look closer and closer. Just what's inside an atomic nucleus? Listen here.

The Muon g-2 result: A chat with Dr Karl

A new podcast chat with Dr Karl about the most recent buzz in particle physics, the Muon g-2 result. Listen here.

The Future History of the Universe

What does the future history of the universe hold? Listen to my latest chat with Dr Karl on what the long tomorrow will bring. Listen here.

What the flip is particle physics?

Our lives are governed by physics. It is the science of matter and energy and without both we wouldn't be here. This past century we...

The trip of a Lifetime

How far can we travel in an expanding universe? The answer is a little more complicated than you imagine. I explore this with Doctor Karl...

Future Universe: Part 2

I continue my discussion with Dr Karl about the Future of the Universe. However, we are still digging through the past to understand why...

The Future History of the Universe

What is the future history of the universe? To answer this question, we have to look firstly into the past. A new chat with Doctor Karl...

Black Holes and the Mystery of the Ergosphere

A new chat with Dr Karl, talking about black holes, spin, and the mysterious ergosphere (which is not a sphere!). Listen here

The 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics with Dr Karl

In my latest chat with Dr Karl, we discussed the 2020 Nobel Prizes in Physics - just what was the prize for? Learn about complex...

Do we live in a simulation?

In my latest chat with Dr Karl, we ponder the question of whether we live in a simulation. This might sound strange, but some scientists...

When Black Holes Collide!

A new podcast with Dr Karl, discussing black hole collisions and gravitational waves. Grab it now here

The Universe has a Dark-Side, with Dr Karl

Another chat with Dr Karl, discussing the dark side of the universe. "Dr Karl probes Professor Lewis on the latest on Dark Matter. Is it...

Top Galactic Neighbourhoods

Another Shirtloads of Science with Doctor Karl, chatting about good, and bad, places to live in the Galaxy. https://shirtloadsofscience.l...

Faster than light: Shirtloads of Science with Dr Karl

A new podcast with the colourful Doctor Karl discussing how traveling faster than the speed of light is a local rule, a rule that can be...

Shirtloads of Science with Doctor Karl

In the lock-down, I've been recording a few episodes of Shirt Loads of Science with Doctor Karl. These include: Entropy Shuttle vs Soyuz...