Strange New Worlds: A Science & Star Trek Podcast

Guest: Dr. Peter Gao In Episode 24, Michael catches up with Dr. Peter Gao at the AGU Fall Meeting to recap the conference and the first nine episodes of Star Trek: Discovery. Michael was recently on two trek.fm podcasts: The Edge, Episode 23: http://trek.fm/the-edge/23 Warp Five, Episode 128: http://trek.fm/warp-five/128 Follow us on Twitter! Peter: @PlanetaryGao Michael: @Miquai

Guest: Qicheng Zhang In Episode 23 of Strange New Worlds, Michael chats with Qicheng Zhang about ʻOumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid ever detected. Follow us on Twitter! Michael: @Miquai

Guests: Dr. Sarah Brothers & Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman In Episode 20, Michael sits down with Dr. Sarah Brothers & Dr. Shawn Domagal-Goldman at the Habitable Worlds conference to discuss what makes a planet habitable, what Star Trek's "M-class" designation means, and how to search for life in the cosmos. Follow us on Twitter: Shawn: @shawndgoldman Mike: @Miquai

Guest: Cecilia Leung For Halloween, Cecilia Leung dressed up as Captain Phillipa Georgiou: https://twitter.com/CelestialCess/status/925787276587679744. In Episode 21, Michael asks her about making that costume, her thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery, and her PhD thesis about water in Mars's atmosphere. Follow us on Twitter: Cecilia: @CelestialCess Michael: @Miquai

Guests: Nathan Stein & Alistair Hayden In Episode 20, Michael sits down with Nathan Stein and Alistair Hayden to hear the true tale of their geologic survey of Little Ambergris—an adventure sandwiched between two monstrous hurricanes.

Guest: Professor Jonathan Fortney In Episode 19, Michael interviews Professor Jonathan Fortney about how we know what's inside of giant planets both within and beyond our Solar System. Follow us on Twitter! Jonathan: @jjfplanet Michael: @Miquai

Guests: Maria Steinrück & Peter Gao At the 2017 Division for Planetary Sciences meeting in Provo Utah, Michael interviews Maria Steinrück & Peter Gao about their research on hot Jupiter atmospheres and their thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery so far. Follow us on Twitter! Maria: @MariaSteinrueck Peter: @PlanetaryGao Michael: @Miquai

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!