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Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur explores humanity’s long-term future through space exploration, advanced technology, and big-picture science. Hosted by National Space Society President Isaac Arthur, each episode uses real science and careful speculation to examine space colonization, megastructures, artificial intelligence, post-scarcity economies, and the physics shaping civilization beyond Earth.

The Space Habitat Diaspora – Humanity Spreads Without Planets

0 secs; April 02, 2026

The End of Science

0 secs; March 31, 2026

Civilizations at the End of Time - How Intelligence Survives the Death of the Universe

0 secs; March 28, 2026

Biohacks & Brain Mods - The Coming Age of Implant Culture

0 secs; March 26, 2026

Micro Planets: Building Artificial Worlds with Black Hole Cores

0 secs; March 22, 2026

Colonizing Brown Dwarfs – Life Around Failed Stars

0 secs; March 19, 2026

Beyond Rockets - 100 Years of Rocketry and What Comes Next

0 secs; March 15, 2026

What Happens When AI Runs the Entire Economy?

0 secs; March 12, 2026

Boron-Based Life – Aliens of the Crystal Deserts

0 secs; March 10, 2026

Post-Scarcity Black Markets

0 secs; March 08, 2026

Interstellar City States

0 secs; March 05, 2026

Panspermia: Could Alien Comets Be Seeding Life Through the Universe?

0 secs; March 01, 2026

Fleet Unity - Humanity’s First Interstellar Armada

0 secs; February 26, 2026

Big Alien Theory

0 secs; February 22, 2026

Interstellar Relays - Moving Signals and Spaceships Between the Stars

0 secs; February 19, 2026

Alien Mathematics

0 secs; February 15, 2026

Space Hotels - How Close Are We to Vacationing in Orbit?

0 secs; February 12, 2026

Wormhole Stableways – Constructing and Navigating Artificial Shortcuts Through Space

0 secs; February 08, 2026

Deep Space Habitats – Designing Self-Sustaining Biomes for Interstellar Journeys

0 secs; February 05, 2026

Plasma Based Lifeforms - Could Creatures of Fire and Lightning Exist?

0 secs; February 01, 2026

Plasma Based Lifeforms - Could Creatures of Fire and Lightning Exist?

0 secs; February 01, 2026

Does Humanity Need To Be Unified To Survive and Settle Space?

0 secs; January 29, 2026

The Fermi Paradox: Air — Atmospheres as a Great Filter

0 secs; January 26, 2026

Asteroid City States – Living in Mobile Habitats Powered by Resource Extraction

0 secs; January 22, 2026

Hidden Alien Empires: Shadow Civilizations & Exostellar Realms

0 secs; January 18, 2026

How Big Could a Space Habitat Get?

0 secs; January 15, 2026

The Anthropic Principle – Are We Meant to Be Here, or Just Lucky?

0 secs; January 11, 2026

Cryogenic Arks – Sleeping Through the Ages

0 secs; January 08, 2026

Berserker Aliens - The Deadliest Answer to the Fermi Paradox

0 secs; January 04, 2026

5 Sci-Fi Fantasies That Could Become Reality

0 secs; January 01, 2026

Post Stellar Civilizations - Life After The Last Star Fades

0 secs; December 28, 2025

The Universe’s Unopened Gifts: Hidden Worlds and the Spirit of Discovery

0 secs; December 25, 2025

Which Stars Could We Live Around? Ranking Every Type of Star

0 secs; December 23, 2025

The Fermi Paradox & Fossil Fuels

0 secs; December 21, 2025

Alien Overlords Have Conquered Earth... Now What?

0 secs; December 18, 2025

Strange Lifeforms: The Chemistry of Alien Worlds

0 secs; December 16, 2025

Vacuum Decay - Escaping the End of Physics Itself

0 secs; December 14, 2025

Bubble Habitats & Zero-G Megastructures

0 secs; December 11, 2025

The Myth of Mutation Why Superpowers Don’t Evolve (and What Might)

0 secs; December 09, 2025

Surviving the Death of the Sun – Moving Earth or Finding a New Home

0 secs; December 07, 2025

Developing a Cis-Lunar Economy

0 secs; December 04, 2025

Beyond Alpha Centauri

0 secs; November 30, 2025

Orbital Farms: Sustaining Life Across the Solar Frontier

0 secs; November 27, 2025

Ark Swarms - Dispersing Humanity Across the Stars to Prevent Extinction

0 secs; November 23, 2025

The Future of Humanity - What Will We Become?

0 secs; November 20, 2025

Could We Nuke Mars’ Core to Restart Its Spin? | New Insights on Martian Interior

0 secs; November 18, 2025

Why We Should Go To Mars... And Why We Shouldn't

0 secs; November 16, 2025

The First Interstellar Colony Humanity’s Leap Beyond Sol

0 secs; November 13, 2025

Doomsday Devices & Ontological Weaponry

0 secs; November 09, 2025

The Space Mining Boom - How Resources Will Shape the Future Economy

0 secs; November 06, 2025

Insectoid Aliens - Hive Minds, Swarms, and Alien

0 secs; November 02, 2025

The Fermi Paradox - Forbidden Zones

0 secs; October 30, 2025

Caretaker AI & Genius Loci: When Worlds Grow Minds of Their Own

0 secs; October 26, 2025

Twilight Imperium - When Galactic Civilizations Ebb

0 secs; October 23, 2025

Abandoned Space Colonies - How Worlds Can Unterraform Themselves

0 secs; October 19, 2025

AI Alignment - Can We Make AI Safe?

0 secs; October 16, 2025

Why Data Centers in Space Could Launch a New Space Economy?

0 secs; October 13, 2025

Dyson Spheres and Solar Commerce: The Birth of a Stellar Economy

0 secs; October 12, 2025

The Fermi Paradox - Did a Natural Nuclear Reactor Spark All Life?

0 secs; October 09, 2025

Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections - Defending Earth from Our Own Star

0 secs; October 05, 2025

After Mars - 8 Candidates For Where Humanity Should Go Next

0 secs; October 02, 2025

New Dwarf Planet Discovered: A Minor Planet With a Major Future?

0 secs; September 30, 2025

Exploring The Multiverse

0 secs; September 28, 2025

Orbital Foundries & Zero-G Manufacturing - Building in Space

0 secs; September 25, 2025

Is 3I/ATLAS an Alien Artifact?

0 secs; September 23, 2025

Life in Methane Oceans: Could Aliens Evolve on Titan-like Worlds?

0 secs; September 20, 2025

Space Habitat Clusters & Conglomerations

0 secs; September 18, 2025

Life on Mars? Perseverance’s Sapphire Canyon Discovery

0 secs; September 16, 2025

Feudal Futures - Knights & Nobles in the Space Age

0 secs; September 14, 2025

Colonial Economies - How Do You Make Money on a New Planet?

0 secs; September 11, 2025

Could We Accidentally Destroy the Universe?

0 secs; September 07, 2025

Orbital Arcologies: Mega-Cities in Space

0 secs; September 04, 2025

The 10 Best Great Filters That Could Explain the Fermi Paradox

0 secs; September 02, 2025

Jupiter Brains & Mega Minds

0 secs; August 31, 2025

After the Singularity - What Life Would Be Like If A Technological Singularity Happened?

0 secs; August 28, 2025

Lunar Industrial Parks - The First Factories Beyond Earth

0 secs; August 24, 2025

Building a Dyson Swarm from Scratch

0 secs; August 21, 2025

Ancient Alien Artifacts - Cosmic Relics Of A Dangerous Past

0 secs; August 17, 2025

Colonizing Rogue Planets

0 secs; August 14, 2025

The Great Scientific Scams - From Snake Oil to Cold Fusion

0 secs; August 10, 2025

The Fermi Paradox & The Hivemind Dilemma

0 secs; August 07, 2025

Galaxy-Scale Megastructures & Kardashev-3 Civilizations

0 secs; August 03, 2025

Epochs of the Universe - The Cosmic Clock & Civilization

0 secs; July 31, 2025

The 10 Best Alien Invasion Strategies

0 secs; July 28, 2025

Vaults of Eternity - Planetary Archives & Stasis

0 secs; July 27, 2025

Materials For Space Elevators - From Carbon Nanotubes To Graphene And Beyond...

0 secs; July 24, 2025

Before the Big Bang - What Came Before Time?

0 secs; July 20, 2025

The Ethics of Transhumanism

0 secs; July 17, 2025

How Would Aliens Behave?

0 secs; July 13, 2025

Spaceport Innovations - Designing the Next Generation of Launch Sites

0 secs; July 10, 2025

What If the Big Bang Never Happened?

0 secs; July 06, 2025

The Economics of a Post-Scarcity Universe - What Happens When Everything Is Free?

0 secs; July 03, 2025

The 10 Worst Alien Invasion Strategies

0 secs; July 01, 2025

ISRU: In-Situ Resource Utilization - From Regolith to Rocket Fuel

0 secs; June 29, 2025

ISRU: In-Situ Resource Utilization

0 secs; June 29, 2025

Cosmic Megafauna - Could Giant Alien Life Forms Exist?

0 secs; June 26, 2025

How Colonizing Space Benefits Earth - The Ground-Level Gains of a Galactic Future

0 secs; June 22, 2025

Space Elevator Economics - Building And Operating A Superhighway To Space

0 secs; June 19, 2025

How Hard Would It Be to Terraform Venus?

0 secs; June 17, 2025

The Terraforming Compendium - From Barren Rocks to Living Worlds

0 secs; June 15, 2025

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