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I wanted to make an episode on a topic from the history of science for a long time, finally it happened. This is an interview with Etienne B...
A quick update on why there's so few episodes from Markus and Nora. In English and German.
In July I visited the Airbus Helicopters factory in Donauwörth and spent time with Antoine van Gent, the Head of Development Flight and Grou...
The climate situatation is getting more and more dire, and in order to reach the goals the international community has set for themselves, e...
The root cause of global warming is that more and more of the energy supplied by the sun is captured by the atmosphere because of increased...
The beam dump is a large graphite block used to take up the energy stored in the LHC beam in case the beam needs to be shut down. Since the...
It's been 377 episodes and we have not yet dedicated one to the F-18. This changes now. In the episode we first talk with Jerry Deren, a for...
The main part of this episode is about flying the F-22 Raptor, the most modern air superiority fighter in the inventory of the USAF. Our gue...
In this episode I talk with Paulo Iscold, a professor or aeronautical engineering at Cal Poly about Nixus Nixus, his most recent project. Ni...
In this episode we cover the final storage of nuclear waste in underground facilities. We start out with a conversation about the basic proc...
My guest Jens and I have two things in common: we both fly gliders, and we both got to fly in an F-16. Which is why we form the Viper Glidin...
A while ago we had a whole series about LHC, ATLAS and particle physics in general. Despite all we know about what our world is made of and...
In this episode we take a look at newer generations of fission reactors, those that are currently being developed or researched. Our guest i...
In this episode we look at how supercomputers are used to help with managing the pandemic. It's a double-header with two guests. We start wi...
Humanity has always been exposed to potentially catastrophic risks that might endanger the continued existence of humanity. Asteroid impacts...
To conclude our detailed look at the ATLAS experiment, this episode looks at the computing infrastructure. We start out with the trigger sys...
After understanding the history and development of ATLAS (and covering the LHC and particle physics in general) in previous episodes, we are...
ATLAS is one of the two general-purpose experiments at the LHC. It has been conceived, designed, and built over decades by hundreds of scien...
The Lockheed F-35 Lightning II is going to be more or less what the F-16 and F-18 are today: the backbone of the US and NATO land and sea-ba...
In light of the current situation, we have decided to record a couple of episodes that cover some of the relevant background in terms of bio...
A major component of particle accelerators like the LHC are the actual accelerators; the current approach relies on radio frequency cavities...
Over the last two years, Markus wrote a book about some of the repeated topic covered on omega tau: SOFIA, Enterprise, Aerospace, Gravitatio...
Six years ago, in episode 150, Jochen Liske of ESO told us about the Extremely Large Telescope that is currently being built in Chile. This...
The F-14 Tomcat is one of the most iconic fighters, certainly among its generation. In this episode we talk with Nick Pirnia about the aircr...
An important consequence of the warming of the planet due to climate change is that the frequency and/or severity of extreme weather events...
When I was in Bordeaux with the DLR to report about their science campaign in September, I also talked to the team from AirZeroG/Novespace a...
Marija Jovanovich is a pilot for the Royal Australian Air Force where she has been flying the P-3 Orion. We discuss the aircraft, the missio...
Earlier this year I visited the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, a European organization that produces global weather for...
In July I visited the NATS tower at Heathrow Airport to interview my guest Adam Spink. We chatted about some of the mechanics of air traffic...
I am interested in societal change: how can a complex society with lots of emergent (perhaps unintended) behaviors make a conscious change,...
A few months ago, a collaboration called the Event Horizon Telescope presented the first direct image of a black hole; or more specifically,...
In June 2019 I had the pleasure and honor to fly in an F-16D with the USAF Thunderbirds. The episode covers the medical briefing about how t...
In May I visited ALICE, one of the four large experiments at the LHC and talked with Despina Hatzifotiadou. We briefly discussed the science...
Socio-technical systems are systems where (groups of) humans interact with (non-trivial) technical systems; an example is the power grid. Th...
Earlier this year I visited the London Air Ambulance, a charity organization that flies two MD-902 helicopters over the UK's capital. I chat...
In our never-ending quest to understand fusion and its potential use in energy production, I visited the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment i...
In this episode I chat with Sean Brady about structural failures in civil engineering. We first discuss the technical and organzational caus...
Throughout the cold war, and til today, the Cobra-codenamed ground, sea and air assets have been used by the US to monitor Soviet/Russian IC...
Justin and Jason wrote a nice book on fusion called The Future of Fusion Energy, and this episode is based on this book. We start out by rev...
Have you ever wondered how the processor in your phone or computer got so much more faster than what the increase in megahertz suggests? In...
With power generation in the grid becoming more diverse and decentralized, energy storage is becoming more and more important. Eduard Heindl...
In mid-September I drove to Illesheim Army Airfield to meet with Caleb Marheine who flies the AH-64 Apache helicopter there. We talked about...
On October 20, the BepiColombo started its flight to Mercury on an Ariane 5 from Kourou. I was at the launch press event at ESOC in Darmstad...
CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences in bacteria and archaea that are a part of these organisms' cellular defense system. A recent discovery...
I chat with Daniel Geaslen about bush flying. His (at this time, former) job is to fly Kodiak turbo props for Mission Aviation Fellowship in...
A few years ago, I interviewed Arjen Lucassen about his wonderful music and how he makes it; obviously, I am a big fan! Recently, his Ayreon...
In this episode I talk with NASA Armstrong's chief scientist Al Bowers about the research projects he has been involved in during his long c...
Effects devices are essential for electric guitars and keyboards because they shape sound and make it interesting; many classic devices exis...
Superconductivity, the ability of a material to carry electrical current with zero resistance, is a surprising property of nature, which man...
The Perlan Project aims to fly gliders into the stratosphere by exploiting mountain waves in order to better understand those waves and to e...