Science AF
Science AF
Dave Ciaccio
Exploring the OMG, WTF and LMFAOASMP of Science! Actual (computer) scientist and (sometimes) comedy writer Dr. Dave Ciaccio (Not a Doctor) gets in depth and/or wildly tangential about scientific discoveries, stories, theories, truths and rumors, with guest comedians, scientists, correspondents or whomever decides to drop in!
Nuclear Fusiology, Orbital Lunology, MyrmeMycoMycology, Space Madness and in Common Nonsense: Lensa and AI Art
In this Episode Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into new advancements in Nuclear Fusion. The Artemis Mission including the Orion Spacecraft which just circumnavigated the moon, a Zombie Ant Fungus-eating Fungus, the USDA passes Lab-Grown Chicken meat, a Brain Computer Interface for coma victims, some Big Bustards that self medicate, a fake Black Hole and a Real One, and finally in Common Nonsense: Is the new Lensa AI Portrait app a good thing or a bad thing? or another thing entirely?
Jan 4, 2023
19 min
DART, Betelgeuse, Bumblebee Fish and The E-Dollar
The DART Mission Scores, Betelgeuse Burps, The Megalodon Murders, Bumblebee Fish, ECASH and Con-Trails!
Nov 4, 2022
16 min
Space Station Drama, Wolf Hunt Mania, and Screen-Time Madness
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks at the science news of the month including the possible first measurement of Hawking Radiation, a titanium ball-drop on Venus, a hot new male contraception idea and the arrival of the Bat Falcon. Plus a Science AF short on the re-instatement of wolves to the endangered species list after a disastrous massacre/hunting season in Wisconsin. Then a Deep-Dive into the latest International Space-Station Drama. Is Russia planning to tank it before NASA gets a chance to dunk it into the sea? Finally, we take a look at the fierce misguided hatred directed at "Screen Time" and why it is COMMON NONSENSE!
Mar 20, 2022
1 hr 2 min
Space Telescopes, Dolphin Clitorae and Animal Farts
Dr Ciaccio returns with a look at the news, including the Moon Hut, Ingenuity Helicopter grounded and a Goldfish-Driven Car. Short looks into the James Webb Space Telescope, possible evidence of Life On Mars, the probable cause of Multiple Sclerosis, and the Dolphin Clitorus. A Deep Dive into a way to reduce cow burps, and which animals fart. And finally in Common Nonsense, why the Tomato really is a Vegetable. No, really! Yes, it is! No, you shut up!
Feb 8, 2022
54 min
Dragon Man, Mars Mushrooms, Coelacanth Ages and the Common Nonsense of Vitamin C
Fake Dr Ciaccio looks into the new classification of human species known as the Dragon Man, a new age study is bad news for the prehistoric Coelacanth fish, and in common nonsense: does Vitamin C do anything for us? Plus are those mushrooms on Mars?
Jun 30, 2021
34 min
DinoSociology, Robo Evolution, Extreme Chromology and Mars' Ingenuity
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) talks about new info on the social lives of Tyrannosaurus Rexes, they might have had more friends than we thought, plus reportedly they were slow AF. Also, alarmist headlines aside, robots that custom make smaller robots are all the rage. In Color news there's a new whitest white and it's not a GOP fundraiser, it's a paint that reflects some huge percentage of light. In Muon news two particle accelerators, CERN in Switzerland and Fermilab in Illinois, are racing to confirm new data that might upend particle physics as we know it, or never quite understood in the first place. Finally, there's a remote control helicopter on Mars and I still don't have one.
Apr 28, 2021
45 min
Food Holograms, Self-Decapitating Slugs, Smog Diamonds and Earth's Magnetic Field Flips
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into new evidence from New Zealand about the last time the Earth's magnetic poles flipped around 42,000 years ago. Also a promising new technology can etch holograms onto foods, Slugs shed their heads (rather bodies) to get a fresh start and how diamonds made from the carbon in the atmosphere could be a climate boon. Finally we take a look and listen at the new data coming back from Mars.
Mar 19, 2021
37 min
Space Lasers, Mini Black Holes, AI Arcade and Why "The Chicken And Egg Problem" Is Nonsense!
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into a US military test of a pizza-box sized solar panel designed to beam microwave energy back to Earth. Plus scientists built a Black Hole in a lab (kinda) to test if Hawking Radiation is real. An AI built by Uber aced Pitfall and other 80s Arcade Games. And in Common Nonsense we take a look at why "the chicken and egg" paradox has not been a paradox or a problem for a very long time.
Mar 7, 2021
1 hr 9 min
Recombinant Viruses, Prehistoric Beer, Lucid Dreams and Extremophile Livin'
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into new science breakthroughs including the discovery of a newly discovered recombinant coronavirus strain that has pieces of two different strains. Plus the unearthing of a 5000 year old Egyptian Brewery that could get feed 9000 people a day. A new study in which researchers have communicated with lucid dreamers in real time, and another unexpected discovery of life in an extremely uncomfortable place (Antarctica).
Feb 22, 2021
35 min
Light Levitation, Cacao Plight, Great Green Wall and Seven Minutes Of Terror
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks at a new form of levitation that uses carbon nanotubes to harness light energy to float on a little puff of excited air. Also, what's causing cacao trees to produce fewer seeds, threatening our supplies of delicious chocolate and cocoa? In some good environmental news, The Great Green Wall of Africa just got a big boost. And in Space Madness, NASA's Perseverance Rover is mere days from a dramatic and dangerous unassisted landing on Mars.
Feb 15, 2021
53 min
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