The Wow! Signal Podcast

We welcome back Professor Abel Mendez from the University of Puerto Rico to tell us about recent research into data from the Arecibo radio telescope focused on cold hydrogen clouds and a proposed nat…

Interview recorded: 11 July 2021

Released: 16 July 2021

Duration: 21 minutes, 33 seconds

Beatriz Villarroel discusses her latest VASCO paper in Nature Scientific Reports, "Exploring nine simultaneous…

Released: 4 February 2021

Duration: 58 minutes 44 seconds

Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis are joined by author Thomas Moynihan. The subject is the idea of human extinction and how it evolved…

Released: 28 November 2020

Duration: 70 minutes, 39 seconds

Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis engage philosopher Chelsea Haramia on the ethics of sending signals into space that might be recei…

Released: 7 November 2020

Duration: 57 minutes, 36 seconds

Co hosts Paul Carr and Daniela De Paulis welcome space historian David Skogerboe to talk about the pro-space activism of Arthur C. Clarke.

Released: 6 April 2020

Duration: 53 minutes, 55 seconds

Author and podcaster Wade Roush talks about his forthcoming book from MIT Press, Extraterrestrials. The book covers astrobiology, SETI, the F…

Released: 31 March 2020

Duration: 54 minutes, 8 seconds

Co-hosts Paul Carr and Daniela DePaulis welcome Dr. Paola Castaño to talk about her research among the science teams working on the Internati…

Released: 20 March 2020

Duration: 31 minutes, 42 seconds

Astronomer David Blank responded to our invitation to comment on the Villarroel+ paper we covered in Episode 41, which he describes as "very…

Released: 22 January 2020

Live recording: 20 January 2020

Duration:  66 minutes 45 seconds

Thread: Astronomy and Astrophysics

Host Paul Carr along with Daniela De Paulis and Ciro Villa welcome astr…

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Duration: 55 minutes, 36 seconds

Adam Dipert is a veteran circus performer and dancer who recently received his PhD in physics from Arizona State University.  Her has brought his various…

Released: 11 December 2019

Duration: 48 minutes, 30 seconds

Co-hosts Daniela DePaulis and Paul Carr welcome Julia DeMarines (@LifeNSpace) to talk about bouncing radio signals off the moon. Julia is…

Released: 15 November 2019

Duration: 42 minutes, 24 seconds

Our guest on Burst 19 in 2016, Dr. Beatriz Villarroel, returns to give us an update on the vanishing star, following the release of a new p…

Released: 16 October 2019

Duration: 54 minutes, 51 seconds

Interstellar Languages is a forthcoming book about the human quest to craft messages that can be understood across interstellar distances.…

Released: 29 September 2019

Duration: 49 minutes, 52 seconds

Download Sofia's paper here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.02683

A conversation with SETI researcher Sofia Sheikh about how we should evaluat…

Released: 18 February 2019

Duration: 6 minutes, 48 seconds

Paul Carr summarizes why we want to know more about this star, and how you can get involved.

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Released: 10 February 2019

Duration: 16 Minutes, 51 Seconds

Abraham Loeb and Shmuel Bialy kicked up a kerfuffle when they wrote a paper suggesting that one possible explanation for ‘Oumuamua was th…

A not quite so short announcement from the producer of the Unseen Podcast and the Wow! Signal. This is for those who have not seen the video.

Unseen Podcast Episode Planning Sheet

Released: 24 April 2018

Duration: 10 minutes, 1 second

Paul Carr talks about today's much more accurate distance estimate to Boyajian's Star from Gaia Data Release 2, and what, if anything, this ru…

Released: 23 April 2018

Duration:12 minutes, 21 seconds

Paul Carr reviews what has been happening over the Winter and early Spring with respect to Boyajian's Star. We review the Winter observations…

Released: 6 February 2018

Duration: 24 minutes, 48 seconds

A hundred years ago cosmologists were struggling to understand the nature and structure of the universe, and at the heart of this struggle…