Blue Dot

Host Dave Schlom is joined by Dr. Bethany Ehlmann, Director of Caltech's Keck Institute for Space Studies and Principal Investigator for the upcoming Lunar Trailblazer mission.

Host Dave Schlom visits with nature and wildlife writer Sy Montgomery, whose Soul of An Octopus was a National Book Award finalist, about her latest work, What The Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird.

Host Dave Schlom visits with Lucy Jane Santos, author of the new book, "Chain Reactions: The Hopeful History of Uranium." It's a fascinating sequel to her previous book, "Half Lives: the Unlikely History of Radium."

Host Dave Schlom visits with Elsa Richardson, an academic at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her new book, Rumbles: A Curious History of The Gut is a fascinating journey through the story of our ongoing quest to understand the process of digestion.

North State residents could be able to see a remarkable partial solar eclipse tomorrow. The eclipse will appear as a “ring of fire,” as the moon’s orbit passes between the earth and the sun, blocking all but a narrow outer ring of the sun’s light. Here's when you can see it and how to stay safe.

Dave visits with James Zimring, author of the new book What Science is and How it Really Works. In a wide-ranging conversation that covers everything from the methodology of science, news flash, there really isn't a "Scientific Method" like the version you saw in your high school biology textbook, to some of the most important social issues of our day like the anti-vaccination movement and climate change science denial.

If there is one most contentious issue in the history of California, it is probably water. From the Owens Valley water wars from the early 20th century…

Dave talks to NASA's Jason Derleth, the executive in charge of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program about some future proposals that are being…

Dave talks to polar climate expert Jennifer Francis about the hows and whys of the north polar region's dramatic warming is affecting weather here at…

Dave takes a deep dive into the science of black holes, which were the basis of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics which went to Roger Penrose, Reinhard…