11 NOV 2019 · How is life going on an Antarctic station? how physicists study glaciers and extract information about ancient climate? I'm speaking with Helene Hoffmann, she is a physicist from Germany, she studies glaciers and spent more than a year on a German Antarctic station. 00:40 Why do we study glaciers? 2:30 Helene’s trip to the science 3:55 How did Helene end up in an Antarctic station? 4:45 How to get to the crew? 7:10 Stations in Antarctica 7:55 Life and goals of the stations 13:40 How the German station looks like, how it is functioning 13:50 Why does it have legs? 15:10 Antarctic office 16:00 Gender balance 16:55 Competition to get to the crew 18:20 Crew age 19:15 Climate inside and outside 20:30 What happened with the previous stations 21:40 Supply, energy, food 24:25 Internet connection 25:30 Free-time activities 28:00 Boats - no boats 28:27 Polar night and polar day 31:00 Live in isolation and space traveling 35:00 Is it possible to eat penguins? 36:00 Nature, as the most exciting experience 37:24 The second summer 39:05 Back to civilization 41:22 Glaciers, what are they and how do they form? 44:29 Equilibrium line, dying Alp glaciers 45:40 Chronic of climate history. How to study temperature, humidity and volcanic eruptions and atmospheric composition of a distant past? 54:10 Most ancient climate record available to humanity 57:45 how to extract an ice core? 61:00 ice chronic conservation 65:40 Diseases frozen in the ice

2 AUG 2019 · I'm speaking with Josh Eby, who is a physicist from Israel, about dark matter. Why do we know it is there? What can it be and what can't? How we are trying to find it. 00:50 How much of dark matter is out there? 1:25 Josh’s journey to the dark matter science? 6:10 Why do we know that there is dark matter? 6:20 Not dark - invisible 7:30 Rotation of galaxies 11:30 Large scale structure of the Universe 14:50 Collision of galaxy clusters (bullet clusters) 18:40 What can’t be dark matter? 18:50 Why it is not an interstellar gas 20:00 Why not small stars or big planets 22:30 Why not neutrino 26:00 why not black holes 32:00 Maybe something is wrong with our understanding of gravity? Modified Newtonian dynamics 35:30 Hypothetical particles which can form dark matter 37:30 WIMPs 43:40 Axions 52:10 Light shining through a wall experiment 54:25 Dark matter stars 58:50 Other ways to search for dark matter 59:00 AMS - particle detector in space 61:40 Dark matter at the Large hadron collider 63:30 Dark matter is a door to the new physics 64:30 Practical implementation of dark matter

8 APR 2019 · Can you imagine how the matter behaved right after the Big Bang? Consider two atomic nuclei flying toward each other with almost speed of light. What happens if they collide? We create a tiny unstable droplet of the primordial matter. This matter has nothing in common with the ordinary matter which surrounds us. It is much denser and extremely hot (temperature > 1 000 000 000 000 000 C). The field researching that is called the heavy ion collisions physics, and the matter is called quark-gluon plasma. This is the second and the last pilot episode of the Born to science podcast and today’s guest is a professor Boris Tomasik. He develops the theory of heavy ion collisions in the Czech Technical University in Prague and the Matej Bel University in Slovakia. We will discuss what quark-gluon plasma is, how we create it and how it behaves. Enjoy! This episode was supported by the COST-THOR EU programme. p.s. This is the last pilot episode of the podcast. So I would appreciate any feedback from your side. Comments and suggestions are very welcome. If you like it and want more, then text me about it and don't forget to share the podcast with your friends you can find me on fb: https://www.facebook.com/BornToScience/ and vk: https://vk.com/born_to_science

2 APR 2019 · Welcome to the born to science podcast, the podcast about science and people behind it. Why do they choose to be scientists? What motivates them? Today guest: Bradley van Paridon. He is a freelance science journalist, podcaster and has a Ph.D. in Parasitology. We will discuss: 1. Parasites - mind manipulation, migration, evolution 2. Science journalism His stories: https://bvanp213.contently.com His podcast: Two Brad for you https://twobradforyou.wordpress.com Enjoy! This episode was supported by the COST-THOR EU programme. p.s. This is the first of two pilot episodes. Therefore I would be happy for any feedback from your side. Comments and suggestions are very welcome. You can find me at: https://www.facebook.com/seryakov.russia https://vk.com/andrey_seryakov https://www.instagram.com/andrey_seryakov/ telegram: andrey_seryakov or just write me an e-mail seryakov@yahoo.com