NASA Found the Ingredients for Life on an Asteroid

From StarTalk. In this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson, joined by co-host Chuck Nice, interviews planetary astrobiologist David Grinspoon about the astonishing findings from asteroid Bennu. They discuss how NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission discovered amino acids, nucleotide bases, and sugars—essential building blocks of life—on Bennu, suggesting that the “ingredients” for life may be widespread across the universe.…

Are We Creating Objective Reality or Finding it? With Charles Liu | Cosmic Queries #107

From StarTalk. Does the universe need observers to exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore questions about entropy, spontaneous symmetry breaking, spectroscopy and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu. Does the universe require observers for information to exist? From Niels Bohr and the Copenhagen interpretation to modern neuroscience and philosophy, the…

Is the Multiverse Real?

From StarTalk. In this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson hosts a discussion with Sean Carroll, joined by Chuck Nice, about the Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, the Copenhagen interpretation, and the nature of reality itself. Sean Carroll explains that the Schrödinger equation naturally suggests a branching universe, where multiple outcomes exist simultaneously, and…