Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast

Guest: Elise Cutts In Episode 17, Michael opens a channel to Edinburgh to discuss the first three episodes of Star Trek: Discovery with Elise Cutts. Follow us on Twitter: Elise: @emcuttsy Michael: @miquai

Guest: Jamie Sue Rankin In Episode 16, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of NASA's Voyager mission to the outer Solar System and beyond with a chat with Jamie Sue Rankin, who studies the radiation environment outside the heliopause...where no spacecraft has gone before.

Guests: Peter Gao, Desun Oka, Aida Behmard, Shreyas Vissapragada, and Cecilia Sanders Our minute-old thoughts on the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery!

Guests: James Keane & Peter Gao In Episode 14, we talk about The Art of Planetary Science, what gives planets their colors, and offer our final thoughts on what we hope to see in Star Trek: Discovery. The Art of Planetary Science: https://www.sites.google.com/site/lpltaps/ Follow us on Twitter: James: @jtuttlekeane Peter: @PlanetaryGao Michael: @Miquai

Guests: James Keane & Peter Gao In Episode 13, Michael sits down with James Keane and Peter Gao to talk about the quickly rotating planet in VOY: "Blink of An Eye" and how a glacier reoriented Pluto over millions of years.

In this bonus episode of Strange New Worlds, Michael recaps his experience seeing Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan during its 35th-anniversary screening and shares some new science-related tidbits that he noticed in the end credits of the movie. Phil Plait's "Wrath of Khan at 35: Entering the Mutara Nebula": http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/wrath-khan-35-entering-mutara-nebula

Guest: Nathan Stein In Episode 12, Mike and Elise interview Nathan Stein about his adventure to a remote Caribbean island to study microbial mats using a drone outfitted for science.

Guests: Mari-Liis Aru, Philippe Nauny, Umesh Bhat, Aswin Manohar In Episode 11, Michael brings back stories and clips from his recent trip to Estonia for an astrobiology conference. You can follow Mari-Liis on Tumblr (http://sci-universe.tumblr.com/) and Instagram (@aspacecolonizer). And you can find Michael on Twitter (@miquai) and Instagram (@miquai).

In Episode 10, Mike and Elise speak to Jane Liu about her master's thesis on the role of emotions in science and science communication.

In part two of our discussion with Cecilia Sanders, we learn more about her research on chemosynthetic life forms and discuss how Star Trek's tricorder might work.