The building blocks of the universe

Unexplainable

Vox

Science, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, an invisible, untouchable, mysterious substance. Scientists don’t know what exactly dark matter is, despite decades of searching. But recently, they got a new clue in the form of an extremely tiny dancer. This episode is a remix of two prior episodes of Unexplainable, which has been airing on broadcast radio through a partnership with American Public Media. For more, go to http://vox.com/unexplainable It’s a great place to view show transcripts and read more about the topics on our show. Also, email us! unexplainable@vox.com We read every email. Support Unexplainable by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for this week's episode of Unexplainable comes from UC San Diego.
0:05.0	UC San Diego is working with artificial intelligence to try to get
0:08.6	closer to answering some enormous challenges.
0:11.7	Whether they're using AI to inform the development of complicated
0:15.2	cures or creating predictive models that could help fight wildfires,
0:19.5	researchers at UC San Diego want to help move us forward,
0:23.1	improve our communities, and shape our future.
0:25.7	You can learn more about how UC San Diego is advancing AI
0:29.3	at ucsd.edu slash AI.
0:33.3	Hey, it's Noam, and we have a special episode this week.
0:37.5	Unexplainable recently got a cool opportunity to make an hour long radio
0:41.7	special to air on radio stations across the country.
0:45.1	To make the radio special, we took our first ever episode,
0:48.5	the story of Vera Rubin and her research on dark matter,
0:51.5	and we coupled it with another favorite episode of ours.
0:54.3	It's about how a 2021 experiment on a certain
0:57.1	subatomic particle called a muon might offer scientists a new clue
1:01.4	in their ongoing search for dark matter.
1:04.0	But we didn't just want this episode to live on the radio.
1:07.2	We wanted to bring it to you, our podcast listeners too.
1:10.6	So here it is.
1:13.1	I remember the first time I saw the movie Men in Black.
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