This Week in Science

This Week in Science

Atlantic Currents
Jul 29, 2023
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Episodes

The impacts of the global climate crisis are being acutely felt this summer... with record-breaking heat waves in Europe, and hot tub-like water temperatures off the Florida coast. City's Kurtis Doering reports, that's the context for a new warning about a critical ocean current system.
Can you actually "hear" silence? Put another way -- does your brain process silence the same way it does sound, or does it just notice the space between sounds? City's Kurtis Doering puts that question to the test.
On July 1st, the European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope successfully blasted off from Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. City's Kurtis Doering is speaking to one of the Canadians involved in the mission, which aims to shed some light on the "dark universe".
It was an explosion so massive, it could be heard 10 thousand kilometres away, seven hours after it happened. City's Kurtis Doering reports on the latest research into last year's volcanic eruption in Tonga, which continues to break records.
If NASA were to start taking bets on which part of the solar system might host alien life, Saturn's icy, vapour-spewing moon Enceladus would be one of the odds-on favourites. And as City's Kurtis Doering reports, a recent discovery has even further improved those odds.

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