The Debrief Weekly Report | A Science and Technology News Podcast

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Get your weekly burst of scientific illumination from The Debrief’s network of rebellious journalists as they warp through the latest breaking science and tech news from the world of tomorrow. Every Friday, join hosts Stephanie Gerk, Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, and MJ Banias as they roundup the latest science and tech stories from the pages of The Debrief. From far-future technology to space travel to strange physics that alters our perception of the universe, The Debrief Weekly Report is meant for the dreamers who love the science and technology of the future. Visit The Debrief at: https://thedebrief.org/ Follow The Debrief on X https://twitter.com/Debriefmedia Follow MJ Banias on X: https://twitter.com/mjbanias Follow Stephanie Gerk on X: https://twitter.com/stephgerk Follow Kenna Hughes-Castleberry on X: https://twitter.com/kennaculture Have something to tell us? Email the show at: weeklyreport@thedebrief.org

Episode Date
Voyager's Whisper in the Darkness | Martian "Spiders," Advanced House Plants, and the Space Probe that Refuses to Quit
Apr 30, 2024
EcoFrontiers: Sci-Fi for a Greener Tomorrow
Apr 26, 2024
Let Slip The Mysterious Dogs of War | Hypersonic Missiles, Lost Cosmonauts, and Compound 19
Apr 23, 2024
The Curious Case of the Vanishing Meteorites in Antarctica | Blue Energy Research, Muscle Tissue Powered Robots, and a Meteor Mystery
Apr 16, 2024
Tweets of the Mind | Neuralink Mental Miracle, 2024 Solar Eclipse, and a New 'Natural' Weightloss Drug
Apr 02, 2024
O for A Muse of Fire | Shakespeare's Mysterious Sister, Nuclear Weapon Detection, and the Birth of a Star
Mar 26, 2024
Feminine Futures: Women's Role in Shaping Sci-Fi Narratives
Mar 22, 2024
An LSD Trip to the Stars | Novel LSD Research, Ancient 'Hand' Relic, and Space Sickness
Mar 19, 2024
We're Not Saying It's Aliens: AARO's UFO Report, Glowing Plant Products, and Cuttlefish Sex Ink?
Mar 12, 2024
Our Stressed Out Little Planet: Giant Snakes, Mental Health, and Life Seeking Satellite Swarms
Mar 05, 2024
Ancient Bacteria is Coming Back to Life: DARPA's New Marine Experiment, Universal Anti-Venom Progress, and the Ancient Bacterial Problems
Feb 27, 2024
Dungeons, Dragons, and Decades: A 50-Year Quest
Feb 23, 2024
That 'Death Star Moon' is Fully Operational!: Deep Sleep Science, Blueberry Mysteries, and Saturn's Eeriest Moon
Feb 13, 2024
Those Astronauts are Naked!: Sound Sensor Tech, NSFW AI Accident, and Video Game Spacesuits
Feb 06, 2024
The Road to Hell Chickens is Paved With Good 'Egg-tentions:' Tiniest Robots Ever, Exoplanet Water Discovery, and the Rise of the Hell Chicken
Jan 30, 2024
To 'Pew' or Not to 'Pew,' That is the Question: Japanese Space Lasers, Undiscovered Amazon Civilizations, and a Mysterious Aircraft Incident
Jan 23, 2024
That Dark Energy is Really Killing My Vibe: Better Blue Light, Vegetable Mind Control, and the Density of Dark Energy
Jan 16, 2024
The Art of Shooting Crows with Lasers: Novel Scarecrow Tech, Hypnosis Breakthrough, and Giant Carnivorous Worms
Jan 09, 2024
How to Reboot a Probe 15 Billion Miles from Earth: Mystery Binary Codes, a Rembrandt Mystery, and NASA's New Space Plane
Dec 19, 2023
Mischief Managed: Chinese Invisibility Cloaks, Exomoon Blunders, and Building Organic Solar Cells
Dec 12, 2023
Left Abandoned in the Devil's Church Cave: Fusion Reactor Update, Dinosaur Death, and an Acoustic Mystery
Dec 05, 2023
AI Can Read Cuneiform Now: Ancient Wearable Technology, Deciphering Tablets, and Growing Food on the Moon
Nov 28, 2023
Do Not Read the Mysterious Ancient Tablet Out Loud. Ever.: Exoplanet WASP-107b, Mystery Lunar Crash, and an Unknown Ancient Tablet Discovery
Nov 21, 2023
Engage the Quantum Drive!: Ancient Stone Maps, Cannabis, and a History Making Space Launch
Nov 14, 2023
The Starfish Are Eating My Brain: Technological Telepathy Research, Bizarre Starfish Evolution, and Ancient Middle Ages Discovery
Nov 07, 2023
What Lies Beneath All That Antarctic Ice?: Ancient Roman Science, Solar Glass, and a Cool Antarctic Discovery
Oct 31, 2023
The Neanderthal Kama Sutra: Frictionless Materials, 3D Printing Space Rockets, and a New Neanderthal DNA Discovery
Oct 24, 2023
What Are We Going to Do With All These People's Brains?: Electron Beams, "Artificial Photosynthesis," and AI Brain Scans
Oct 17, 2023
What You Gon' Do With All That Space Junk?: NASA's New Space Laser Project, FCC Space Fines, and a Stonehenge Secret
Oct 06, 2023
Go Home OSIRIS-REx, You're Drunk: Beer Goggles, Trappist-1 Ghost Signals, and Robbing an Asteroid
Sep 29, 2023
Remember That Time America Misplaced a Stealth Fighter?: Cannabis Brain Science, WiFi Spies, and a Missing Fighter Jet
Sep 22, 2023
Can AI Actually Create Art?: Music and Dreams, Europe's New Fire Ant Problem, and AI Artists Target Congress
Sep 15, 2023
Runes, Robots, and Replicating Hydrogen: Humanoid Robots, Ancient Rune Research, and the Future of Hydrogen Power
Sep 08, 2023
Is There Life on Mars?: China's Sub Spotting Technology, T-Cells in Space, and Why Human's May Have Killed Life on Mars
Sep 01, 2023
Liar, Liar, AI on Fire: Origins of Life on Earth, Hacking Starlink Satellites, and a new AI-powered Disinformation System
Aug 18, 2023
Taylor Swift is My Giant Brain Virus: Martian Soil Samples, Giant Viruses, and Medical Micro-Robots
Aug 04, 2023
UFOs Go to Washington | "Rain Panels," Planetary Geoarchaeology, and the Congressional Hearing on UFOs
Jul 28, 2023
You're A Wizard, Einstein!: Time Dilation, Lockheed Martin's New Plane, and Academic Research into Magic
Jul 07, 2023
Riding the Gravitational Waves of Your Mind: Gravitational Wave Background Discovery, Settling a Consciousness Bet, and the Psychology of Bullshit
Jun 30, 2023
Amino Acid Slow Jams: Mysterious Lunar Objects, Speeding White Dwarf Stars, and Life's Building Blocks Floating Around Intersteller Space
Jun 23, 2023
Does ChatGPT Really Want to Save Humanity, or is This a Trap?: AI Built Robots, Solar Probes, and the Search for Exoplanets
Jun 16, 2023
That UFO Episode: Government Whistleblowers and NASA's UAP Investigations
Jun 07, 2023
We Can’t Stop Here. This is Emu Country!: Australian Combat Lasers, New LSD Research, and Brain Activity After Death.
May 26, 2023
Saint Fetch, The Patron Robot of Lost Things: Air Force Energy Weapons, Studying Salamanders to Reverse Aging, and the Robot Who Helps You Find the Remote
May 19, 2023
"Now, I Am Become AI, the Destroyer of Worlds." | Updating the Nuclear Arsenal, Secret Chinese Spacecraft, and the Anomaly Detecting AI
May 12, 2023
Russian Space Station? Cosmo...NOT: Dark Matter Discoveries, Smart Material, and Russia's New Commitment to the ISS
May 05, 2023
Live Long and Be Fabulous: Diversity in the Space Industry, Mysterious Tracks in Greenland, and Lasers over Japan
Apr 28, 2023
Bonus Episode | Diversity and Space Exploration with Guest Robert Picardo
Apr 27, 2023
Strange Metals in a Strange Land: The Pentagon’s UFO Office Update, “Strange Metals,” and The First Formation of Light in the Universe
Apr 21, 2023
If an AI Could Read Your Mind, Love: NASA’s X-59, Ultrasonic Hacking Attacks, and Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Read Minds
Apr 14, 2023
Don’t Leave your Black Hole Unattended: The StormBreaker Smart Missile, Ultrasonic Talking Plants, and Artificial Black Holes
Apr 07, 2023
Another One Bites the Alien Space Dust: Earth’s Asteroid Problem, A Cosmic Anomaly, and Looking for Life in the Smallest of Places
Mar 31, 2023
This Little Quantum Light of Mine: DARPA’s Liberty Lifter, A Particle Accelerator Breakthrough, and Controlling the Chaos of Light
Mar 24, 2023
One Small Step for Man’s Garbage: Space Junk, EV Aircraft, and Monitoring Earth’s Pollution with Satellites
Mar 17, 2023
Do Organoids Dream of Electric Bandages?: Electricity Generating Bacteria, Brains in a Dish, and Bandages from the Future
Mar 10, 2023
The Universe Just Broke: Thermodynamics, Baby Galaxies That Aren’t, and the Secrets of the Pyramids
Mar 03, 2023
Is That An Oblong Space Object in your Pocket...Or...?: Strange Space Objects, Psychedelic Medicine, and Telepathic Robot Dogs from Australia
Feb 24, 2023
Begun, The Balloon War Has: Unknown Objects over North America, The Mushroom Medicinal Apocalypse, and the Science of Hidden Memories
Feb 17, 2023
Wolf 1069b Was an Inside Job!: Ghost Particles, a New Exoplanet Discovery, and the Bleeding Edge of Drone Technology
Feb 10, 2023
Do Dodo Birds Taste like Chicken?: Hawaii’s Mysterious Lights, De-extinction, and the Science of Surviving a Nuclear Blast
Feb 03, 2023
We Like Big Moons and We Cannot Lie: Zombie Crabs, Krypton-powered Propulsion, and Looking for Aliens in All The Right Places
Jan 27, 2023