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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 Terraforming Compendium - From Barren Rocks to Living Worlds

0 secs; June 15, 2025

Interstellar Travel: Can We Survive the Long Journey?

0 secs; June 12, 2025

Could We See a Second Big Bang?

0 secs; June 10, 2025

How Many Alien Civilizations Are There?

0 secs; June 08, 2025

Orbital Shipyards - Building Fleets in Space

0 secs; June 05, 2025

5 Fermi Paradox Explanations I Love… and 7 That Fall Flat

0 secs; May 31, 2025

Stormtroopers: Elite Warriors and the Evolution of Future Combat

0 secs; May 29, 2025

Ancient Machine Monitors: Alien Watchdogs, AI Custodians, and the Fermi Paradox

0 secs; May 25, 2025

Life in 2525 A.D. (Narrated Only by Isaac)

0 secs; May 22, 2025

Life in 2525 A.D. (Episode 500 Full Audio Drama Version)

0 secs; May 22, 2025

Worldhouses: Building Planets, One Dome at a Time

0 secs; May 15, 2025

Post-Biological Civilizations: Life Beyond Flesh and Bone

0 secs; May 11, 2025

Cities of the Future – Megacities, Arcologies, and Floating Utopias

0 secs; May 08, 2025

The Alien Cold War: Silent Competition Among Dormant Empires In A Dark Galaxy

0 secs; May 01, 2025

Galactic Beacons: Teaching Tools or Tombstones?

0 secs; April 27, 2025

The O'Neill Cylinder Space Habitat: Islands In The Sky

0 secs; April 24, 2025

Space Marines

0 secs; April 20, 2025

Post-Scarcity Civilizations: Infinite Resources & Our Future

0 secs; April 17, 2025

We've Been Invaded By Aliens... Now What?

0 secs; April 13, 2025

The Fermi Paradox & Zombie AI: Are Rogue Machines Hiding in the Cosmos?

0 secs; April 10, 2025

The Future of Hydroelectric Power

0 secs; April 03, 2025

Crystal Aliens: Life, But Not As We Know It

0 secs; March 30, 2025

What Is Hyperspace? Exploring the Science Behind FTL

0 secs; March 27, 2025

High-Gravity Worlds: The Planets That Crush You

0 secs; March 20, 2025

Exiled Space Colonies

0 secs; March 16, 2025

Hammer Habs & Tethered Space Habitats

0 secs; March 13, 2025

Buzz Aldrin's Cyclers - A Safe Spaceship To Mars And Beyond

0 secs; March 10, 2025

Methuselah Civilizations: A Society of the Ageless

0 secs; March 06, 2025

Skyhooks, Rotovators & Space Ladders: Lifting Humanity To The Stars Without Rockets

0 secs; March 02, 2025

Gravity Tech: The Power To Reshape Our Civilization... And The Cosmos Themselves

0 secs; February 27, 2025

Topopolis: The Eternal River Space Habitat

0 secs; February 23, 2025

Black Sun Rising: Living On A Planet Around A Black Hole

0 secs; February 20, 2025

Impossible Technologies: The Clarketech Compendium

0 secs; February 16, 2025

The Kardashev Scale & Population

0 secs; February 13, 2025

Xenocide

0 secs; February 09, 2025

The Bernal Sphere

0 secs; February 06, 2025

The Fermi Paradox: Galactic Great Filters

0 secs; January 30, 2025

Giant Space Monsters

0 secs; January 26, 2025

Civilizations At The End Of Time: Eternal Intelligence

0 secs; January 23, 2025

Untangling String Theory

0 secs; January 16, 2025

Mass Drivers vs Rockets

0 secs; January 09, 2025

Nanotechnology: The Future of Everything

0 secs; January 09, 2025

Upcoming Energy Technologies

0 secs; January 02, 2025

Predictions for Technology, Civilization & Our Future

0 secs; December 29, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Hermit Hypothesis

0 secs; December 26, 2024

Space Elevators: Strategies & Status

0 secs; December 19, 2024

Gravitic Spaceship Propulsion

0 secs; December 15, 2024

Off The Grid: Technological Autonomy

0 secs; December 12, 2024

The Medusa Spaceship Drive

0 secs; December 05, 2024

Building Biospheres: Engineering Self-Sustaining Ecosystems for Future Worlds

0 secs; December 01, 2024

The Stanford Torus Space Habitat

0 secs; November 28, 2024

Ultra-Relativistic Spaceships: Racing Towards the Speed of Light

0 secs; November 24, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Gravity

0 secs; November 21, 2024

Aliens Have Contacted Us... Now What?

0 secs; November 14, 2024

Nuclear Fusion: Updates & Impacts

0 secs; November 10, 2024

Harvesting Planets: Space Mining and the Future of Resource Extraction

0 secs; November 07, 2024

Early Terraforming

0 secs; November 03, 2024

Ghost Armadas & Primordial Galactic Wars

0 secs; October 31, 2024

Dark Stars At The Beginning Of Time

0 secs; October 27, 2024

Posthuman Pathways

0 secs; October 24, 2024

Ocean Habitats: Artificial Islands, Raft Cities, Submarine Structures, and more…

0 secs; October 17, 2024

Fungal Aliens

0 secs; October 13, 2024

Colonizing Io

0 secs; October 10, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Large Moons

0 secs; October 03, 2024

Life As An Asteroid Miner

0 secs; September 29, 2024

Is Privacy Going Extinct?

0 secs; September 26, 2024

Transcendence

0 secs; September 19, 2024

Anachronistic Technology

0 secs; September 15, 2024

The Cities Of Mars

0 secs; September 12, 2024

The Library Of Babel

0 secs; September 05, 2024

Stellar Nomads

0 secs; September 01, 2024

Gardens Of The Moon

0 secs; August 29, 2024

Retrocausality: Cause After Effect

0 secs; August 25, 2024

Battle Fleets

0 secs; August 22, 2024

The Next Technological Revolution

0 secs; August 15, 2024

Were Primitive Humans Uplifted?

0 secs; August 11, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Migration

0 secs; August 08, 2024

Life As A Planetary Governor

0 secs; August 01, 2024

Nomadic Miners On The Moon (2024)

0 secs; July 28, 2024

Self-Repairing Machines

0 secs; July 25, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Fine-Tuned Universe

0 secs; July 18, 2024

Dormant Alien Empires

0 secs; July 14, 2024

Interstellar Colonization Compendium

0 secs; July 11, 2024

Cyborg Civilizations

0 secs; July 07, 2024

Roko's Basilisk

0 secs; July 04, 2024

Free Will, Quantum & Orchestrated Objective Reduction

0 secs; June 30, 2024

Megastructures: Hollow Earth

0 secs; June 27, 2024

What If The Dinosaurs Hadn't Died Off?

0 secs; June 20, 2024

Paradise Planets

0 secs; June 16, 2024

Oceanic Moons

0 secs; June 13, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Timebombs

0 secs; June 06, 2024

Jobs In Space

0 secs; June 02, 2024

Colonizing Ganymede

0 secs; May 30, 2024

Space Freighters, Cargos & Crews

0 secs; May 26, 2024

Alternative Intelligence: The Other A.I.

0 secs; May 23, 2024

Cosmic Capitals

0 secs; May 16, 2024

Alien Embassies

0 secs; May 12, 2024

The Fermi Paradox: Interdiction

0 secs; May 09, 2024

The Banks Orbital: God’s Bracelet

0 secs; May 02, 2024

Colonization & Habitability Of Binary Star Systems

0 secs; April 28, 2024

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