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omega tau – science & engineering [English only]
science and engineering in your headphones
קטגוריה: מדע וטכנולוגיה תגיות: aviation, engineering, medicine, physics, science, space, Technology, transportation, מדע וטכנולוגיה
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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 Benson,01:16:00 16/06/2023 -
A quick update on why there's so few episodes from Markus and Nora. In English and German.00:11:51 20/02/2023
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In July I visited the Airbus Helicopters factory in Donauwörth and spent time with Antoine van Gent, the Head of Development Flight and Ground00:00:00 01/09/2022
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The climate situatation is getting more and more dire, and in order to reach the goals the international community has set for themselves, engineering00:00:00 20/05/2022
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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 amounts01:01:45 18/03/2022
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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 energy01:30:55 06/02/2022
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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 former03:40:04 22/10/2021
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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 guest01:47:35 01/08/2021
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In this episode I talk with Paulo Iscold, a professor or aeronautical engineering at Cal Poly about Nixus Nixus, his most recent project. Nixus01:42:07 04/06/2021
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In this episode we cover the final storage of nuclear waste in underground facilities. We start out with a conversation about the basic process03:15:43 01/05/2021
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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 Gliding01:36:38 02/04/2021
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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 the01:42:17 06/03/2021
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In this episode we take a look at newer generations of fission reactors, those that are currently being developed or researched. Our guest is01:54:33 04/01/2021
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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 with02:28:47 29/10/2020
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Humanity has always been exposed to potentially catastrophic risks that might endanger the continued existence of humanity. Asteroid impacts02:40:06 22/08/2020
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To conclude our detailed look at the ATLAS experiment, this episode looks at the computing infrastructure. We start out with the trigger systems02:46:06 27/07/2020
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After understanding the history and development of ATLAS (and covering the LHC and particle physics in general) in previous episodes, we are03:02:57 16/06/2020
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ATLAS is one of the two general-purpose experiments at the LHC. It has been conceived, designed, and built over decades by hundreds of scientists02:39:31 02/06/2020
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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-based01:14:56 20/05/2020
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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 biology,01:47:32 29/04/2020
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A major component of particle accelerators like the LHC are the actual accelerators; the current approach relies on radio frequency cavities.01:07:11 22/04/2020
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Over the last two years, Markus wrote a book about some of the repeated topic covered on omega tau: SOFIA, Enterprise, Aerospace, Gravitational00:41:22 11/04/2020
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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 episode01:07:12 14/02/2020
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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 aircraft's04:15:28 03/01/2020
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An important consequence of the warming of the planet due to climate change is that the frequency and/or severity of extreme weather events will01:22:48 22/12/2019
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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 about01:33:38 29/11/2019
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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 missions,02:15:18 12/11/2019
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Earlier this year I visited the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, a European organization that produces global weather forecasts03:05:25 19/10/2019
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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 traffic02:34:07 27/09/2019
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I am interested in societal change: how can a complex society with lots of emergent (perhaps unintended) behaviors make a conscious change, such00:58:41 29/08/2019
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A few months ago, a collaboration called the Event Horizon Telescope presented the first direct image of a black hole; or more specifically,01:30:14 16/08/2019
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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 to03:33:39 19/07/2019
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In May I visited ALICE, one of the four large experiments at the LHC and talked with Despina Hatzifotiadou. We briefly discussed the science02:02:26 09/07/2019
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Socio-technical systems are systems where (groups of) humans interact with (non-trivial) technical systems; an example is the power grid. The02:42:51 14/06/2019
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Earlier this year I visited the London Air Ambulance, a charity organization that flies two MD-902 helicopters over the UK's capital. I chatted02:13:57 01/06/2019
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In our never-ending quest to understand fusion and its potential use in energy production, I visited the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment in03:27:50 11/05/2019
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In this episode I chat with Sean Brady about structural failures in civil engineering. We first discuss the technical and organzational causes02:04:59 09/04/2019
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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 ICBM01:33:30 09/03/2019
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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 revisiting02:15:36 09/02/2019
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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 this02:25:01 17/12/2018
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With power generation in the grid becoming more diverse and decentralized, energy storage is becoming more and more important. Eduard Heindl's01:40:17 02/12/2018
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In mid-September I drove to Illesheim Army Airfield to meet with Caleb Marheine who flies the AH-64 Apache helicopter there. We talked about02:28:50 18/11/2018
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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 Darmstadt02:12:19 26/10/2018
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CRISPR is a family of DNA sequences in bacteria and archaea that are a part of these organisms' cellular defense system. A recent discovery showed01:31:35 14/09/2018
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I chat with Daniel Geaslen about bush flying. His (at this time, former) job is to fly Kodiak turbo props for Mission Aviation Fellowship in01:44:05 31/08/2018
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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 Ayreon02:06:54 01/08/2018
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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 career03:00:27 17/07/2018
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Effects devices are essential for electric guitars and keyboards because they shape sound and make it interesting; many classic devices exist.02:04:24 21/06/2018
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Superconductivity, the ability of a material to carry electrical current with zero resistance, is a surprising property of nature, which man02:50:50 08/06/2018
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The Perlan Project aims to fly gliders into the stratosphere by exploiting mountain waves in order to better understand those waves and to explore01:51:20 10/05/2018
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During our tour NorthWest 2017 I visited the drop tower at Uni Bremen's ZARM and talked with Martin Castillo, the head of material science at01:46:56 10/03/2018
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In December 2017 I had the opportunity to spend a few days on board the Royal Navy's HMS Enterprise on her trip from Limassol, Cyprus to Valetta,08:03:42 07/02/2018
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Conlangers are people who design human languages, either just for fun or for use in works of fiction, often TV series or movies. My guest, David02:11:48 17/01/2018
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This episode is a continuation of the two previous episodes (132, 133) with Davide on the Space Shuttle. Based on his new, second book we talk02:19:46 25/12/2017
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In this episode we chat about the science and engineering involved in nuclear weapons. Our guest is Alex Wellerstein of the Stevens Institute02:31:06 26/11/2017
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267 - The Quantum Tron UAV01:50:33 22/10/2017
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266 - Secondary Surveillance Radar02:14:47 13/10/2017
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264b - Special Announcement EN00:04:49 27/09/2017
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258 - The History and Technology of Spy Satellites02:05:54 28/07/2017
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257 – Flight Research at NASA Armstrong, Part 2: Fullscale02:56:48 21/07/2017
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256 - Flight Research at NASA Armstrong, Part 1: Subscale01:59:50 16/07/2017
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255 - Aerial Refueling with the KDC-1001:09:23 08/07/2017
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252 - Red Flag03:09:49 17/06/2017
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251 - Flying the F-16 Viper03:31:50 09/06/2017
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249 - Plasma Physics02:27:55 20/05/2017
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248 - Distant Early Warning, SAGE and the F-106 Delta Dart03:52:57 13/05/2017
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247 - Bulk Metallic Glass01:46:29 07/05/2017
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245 - Glaciology Research at the Darwin Glacier01:21:56 22/04/2017
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243 - Formal Specification and Proof02:02:51 10/04/2017
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242 - Satellite Testing at ESTEC01:24:13 31/03/2017
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241 - Electric Propulsion of Spacecraft01:38:42 25/03/2017
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239 - The Saturn V Launch Vehicle02:27:52 11/03/2017
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238 - Societal Complexity, Part II: Today's Perspective01:11:37 05/03/2017
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237 - Synthesizers03:28:41 25/02/2017
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236 - Space Flight Software01:47:34 18/02/2017
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235 - A Walk in the Woods with Miami Rick and the Big Boeings01:53:49 11/02/2017
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233 - Bio-Inspired Systems at EPFL01:19:41 28/01/2017
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231 - The Future Circular Collider01:42:32 15/01/2017
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229 - (Ant-)Arctic Sea Ice02:12:17 01/01/2017
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226 - Tidal Power01:35:39 11/12/2016
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224 - Flying the F-15 Eagle02:20:23 27/11/2016
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219 - Flying the V-22 Osprey01:05:54 17/10/2016
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218 - A Life in Apollo01:17:40 07/10/2016
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216 - Airbus History01:40:10 20/09/2016
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212 - The Tornado ADV01:50:16 01/08/2016
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211 - Farnborough 201602:52:36 20/07/2016
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210 - A350 Flight Testing02:04:47 13/07/2016
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209 - Satellite Development at OHB02:42:31 04/07/2016
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204 - Earth Observation at Planet Labs01:22:41 09/05/2016
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202 - Aviation Incident Reporting at CHIRP01:48:30 22/04/2016
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200 - Port Towage and Tugs02:27:38 31/03/2016
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199 - Mass Spectrometers02:21:55 20/03/2016
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198 - Ship Salvage01:30:55 09/03/2016
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197 - The European XFEL01:57:24 25/02/2016
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196 - Lasers01:15:45 13/02/2016
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195 - Flying the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft01:29:42 05/02/2016
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Das Jahr The Year 201501:43:11 29/12/2015
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191 - String Theory02:43:07 22/12/2015
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190 - SOFIA Part 2, The Flights06:55:48 08/12/2015
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189 - SOFIA Part 1, Basics02:48:50 30/11/2015
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