Science AF Podcast

15/01/2023

Ignition Achieved! Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a deep dive into a major milestone for the future of energy. For the first time ever, USA scientists have built a nuclear fusion reactor that produces more energy than it uses.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a deep dive into a major milestone for the future of energy. For the first time ever, USA scientists have built a nuclear fusion reactor that produces more energy than it uses.

11/01/2023

Common Nonsense! The Lensa Artificial Intelligence portrait app has sparked a lot of debate/all-caps facebook rants, but is it good or bad? The truth is more interesting and more terrifying. Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) talks about why we need to stop being surprised that AI can do anything we can do, including make art. From ION Scionce: The Science News, With Jokes. Watch full episodes of at ION Scionce and individual stories at Science AF on Garage TV

https://grage.tv/safs/episode/45

Lensa is a Portrait Painting App that uses Artificial Intelligence and has sparked a fierce debate about whether it is stealing copyrighted work. It isn't. But what it is doing is much more interesting and terrifying.

10/01/2023

Nuclear Fusiology, Orbital Lunology, MyrmeMycoMycology, Space Madness and in Common Nonsense: Lensa and AI Art

https://grage.tv/science/episode/3

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?

08/02/2022

We're back! For a semi-weekly dose of semi-science in audio podcast form, click the "Start Downloading Again" button in your podcast app! (Or, you know, subscribe for the first time.) Also check out the animated video shorts on g-rage.tv (Garage TV)

Space Scopes, Dolphin C***s 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 Cl****us. A Deep Dive into a way to reduce cow burps, inspires Dr Ciaccio to compose a song about which animals fart. And finally in Common Nonsense, why the Tomato really is a Vegetable. No, really! Yes, it is! No, you shut up!

https://grage.tv/scienceaf/episode/51

19/03/2021

SAFS: Climate Countdown - Smog Diamonds

Fake Dr Ciaccio checks out the Sacoglossan Sea Slugs that can pop its own head off, or rather body, and regrow a whole new self.

Fake Dr Ciaccio checks out the new company, Aether, that is using carbon captured from the air to make conflict-free and carbon-negative diamonds.Article Lin...

19/03/2021

SAFS: BiOMG - Self-Decapitating Slugs

Fake Dr Ciaccio checks out the Sacoglossan Sea Slugs that can pop its own head off, or rather body, and regrow a whole new self.

Fake Dr Ciaccio checks out the Sacoglossan Sea Slugs that can pop its own head off, or rather body, and regrow a whole new self.Article Link:http://www.sci-n...

19/03/2021

SAFS: The Flip Side - New Evidence For Earth's Pole Flippage

Fake Dr Ciaccio takes a look at some new data from New Zealand on the last time that Earth's Magnetic Poles flipped positions, and what kind of chaos it would have caused for the humans and neanderthals that were around to witness it.

Fake Dr Ciaccio takes a look at some new data from New Zealand on the last time that Earth's Magnetic Poles flipped positions, and what kind of chaos it woul...

19/03/2021

SAFS: Food Awakening - Edible Holograms

Fake Dr Ciaccio looks into a new technology that uses lasers to etch holographic images onto a thin layer of sugar.

Fake Dr Ciaccio looks into a new technology that uses lasers to etch holographic images onto a thin layer of sugar.Article Links:https://pubs.acs.org/doi/ful...

10/03/2021

SAFS: AI AI AI - Artificial Intelligence Beats Pitfall - An AI program developed by Uber was able to ace some 80s adventure games such as Pitfall, Freeway and Montezuma's Revenge.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into the method used by an AI program developed by Uber that was able to ace some 80s adventure games such as Pitfall and Mon...

10/03/2021

SAFS: Common Nonsense - The Chicken And Egg Problem Isn't One. The answer has long been well known. Eggs came along millions of years before chickens, and the first chicken egg was laid by a not-chicken!

Common Nonsense! Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into a cool breakthrough that demonstrates the stability of tRNA, but questions the continued use of the ter...

10/03/2021

SAFS: Wait, What? - Mini Black Holes Developed In A Lab! (Kinda) The "Black Hole" is a actually Bose-Einstein Condensate that revolves faster than the speed of sound causing an event horizon to quantum sound waves called Phonons, natch.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) checks into the new report that a lab-grown mini black hole (analog) that seems to demonstrate Hawking Radiation. The "Black Hole" ...

09/03/2021

SAFS: Space Madness - U.S. Developing Microwave Space Lasers!

Don't worry, we aren't in danger of any sort of Real Genius-type giant microwaved popcorn explosion, we promise.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into the new experimental pizza-box sized solar satellites being deployed by the US military to test the idea of harvesting s...

22/02/2021

SAFS: Extremophile Life - Antarctica
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into the newly discovered extremophile organisms living under an ice shelf, where the livin ain't easy. Tiny stalk plants & corals live off a sumptuous "marine snow".

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into the newly discovered extremophile organisms living under an Antarctic ice shelf, where the livin ain't easy. These tiny ...

22/02/2021

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into a new study where researchers were able to communicate with people who were actively dreaming. Some participants were able to signal out that they were aware they were dreaming, and even answer questions and solve math problems, without waking up.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into a new study where researchers were able to communicate with people who were actively dreaming. Some participants were ab...

22/02/2021

BRBeer. Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a look at a recently excavated Egyptian brewery dating back to around 3000 BCE. They say it could keep 9000 city workers tispy a day, and that's before work (not really that last part).

BRBeer. Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a look at a recently excavated Egyptian brewery dating back to around 3000 BCE. They say it could 9000 city workers d...

18/02/2021

Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter Drone Land on Mars NOW!

Watch an epic journey unfold on Thursday, Feb. 18 as our Perseverance rover lands on Mars. To reach the surface of the Red Planet, the rover has to survive t...

16/02/2021

SAFS: Eye On Science - Light-powered Levitation
Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a look at a new form of levitation using carbon nanotubes to harness light energy creating tiny flying saucers. It's NOT that much like a light-sail, which uses photons to accelerate in space, even though every news outlet feels compelled to compare the two light-to-energy technologies.

Eye On Science! Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a look at a new form of levitation using carbon nanotubes to harness light energy creating tiny flying saucer...

16/02/2021

SAFS: Climate With Me - The Great Green Wall Of Africa
Some optimistic climate news for once, looking into a renewed economic commitment to The Great Green Wall project to build a forest all the way across the continent of Africa, along the southern border of the Sahara desert. This could stop the desertification of central Africa, as well as boost ecological diversity and bolster local economies.
https://youtu.be/P_Nl4Hrgmu4

Climate With Me! Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) brings some optimistic climate news for once, looking into a renewed economic commitment to The Great Green Wall p...

16/02/2021

SAFS - Space Madness: NASA's impending Seven Minutes Of Terror
The landing of NASA Mars Rover Perseverance & Ingenuity Helicopter Drone is scheduled for this Thursday 18 Feb 2021. The landing is complex, dangerous and completely hands-off. https://youtu.be/f4jQDN8V8UE

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks forward to the landing of the NASA Mars Rover Perseverance and Ingenuity Helicopter Drone which is scheduled for this Thursda...

15/02/2021

Science AF Shorts: BiOMG - Chocolatastrophe! Ok maybe more of a Chocatergency. Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into Cacao tree pollination decline. Some farmers are pollinating by hand, a painstaking process that pays off.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into a report that Cacao tree pollination is in decline, and we're not sure why. Probably some tiny insect not doing its job....

04/02/2021

We Have Chemistry.... Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) checks out news that Transparent Wood technology just got better. Not to mention, there's Transparent Wood!

We Have Chemistry.... Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) checks out news that Transparent Wood technology just got better. Not to mention, there's Transparent Wood!Ar...

04/02/2021

By for now... Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a somber look at the sudden unplanned decommissioning (e.g. complete collapse) of Puerto Rico's famous Arecibo space telescope.

By for now... Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) takes a somber look at the sudden unplanned decommissioning (e.g. complete collapse) of Puerto Rico's famous Arecibo ...

04/02/2021

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into why our sleep cycles are affected by the phase and brightness of the moon, even when we can't see it.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks into why our sleep cycles are affected by the phase and brightness of the moon, even when we can't see it.Article link: https...

04/02/2021

Space Madness! Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) checks out what happened to the elder star Betelgeuse, also known as Orion's Shoulderpad, when it briefly went dark in 2019.

Space Madness! Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) checks out what happened to the elder star Betelgeuse, also known as Orion's Shoulderpad, when it briefly went dark ...

04/02/2021

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks at the December 2020 explosion of the SpaceX SN8 rocket after a successful flight and belly flop, but completely botched the landing.

Dr Ciaccio (not a doctor) looks at the December 2020 explosion of the SpaceX SN8 rocket after a successful flight and belly flop, but completely botched the ...

24/01/2021

About to go LIVE on Twitch to talk about some SCIENCE! (~6pm PT) Twitch.tv/Science_AF

13/12/2020

Dave Ciaccio - live

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