Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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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.

Episodes (2287)

Ion Drives: The Slow Rockets That Win Space (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Sep 6, 202634:15failed

Ion Drives: The Slow Rockets That Win Space

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Sep 6, 202634:37failed

The Wow! Signal: Alien Message, Cosmic Fluke, or SETI’s Best False Alarm? (Narra...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Sep 3, 202634:37failed

The Wow! Signal: Alien Message, Cosmic Fluke, or SETI’s Best False Alarm?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Sep 3, 202634:58failed

Dark Biospheres - Life on Worlds Without Sunlight (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 29, 202627:22pending

Dark Biospheres - Life on Worlds Without Sunlight

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 29, 202627:50pending

What Happens Inside a Black Hole?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 27, 202634:24pending

What Happens Inside a Black Hole? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 27, 202634:00pending

Megacorporations in Space (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 23, 202638:10pending

Megacorporations in Space

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 23, 202638:26pending

The First Generation Problem – Who Shapes a New Civilization’s Values? (Narratio...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 20, 202638:10pending

The First Generation Problem – Who Shapes a New Civilization’s Values?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 20, 202631:43pending

Space Habitats: The Strangest Worlds We Could Build (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 15, 20264:34:29pending

Space Habitats: The Strangest Worlds We Could Build

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 15, 20264:29:07pending

Life in a Relativistic Starship (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 13, 202634:12pending

Life in a Relativistic Starship

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 13, 202634:34pending

Are We Living in a Simulation? A Modern Look at the Simulation Argument (Narrati...

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 9, 202640:24pending

Are We Living in a Simulation? A Modern Look at the Simulation Argument

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 9, 202640:47pending

The First Martian Cities: Planning Habitats

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 6, 202633:22pending

The First Martian Cities: Planning Habitats (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 6, 202633:02pending

Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 2, 202633:59pending

Fluorine Lifeforms – Creatures of the Halogen Seas (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Aug 2, 202633:41pending

Can You Survive Inside a Star? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 30, 202624:02pending

Can You Survive Inside a Star?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 30, 202624:21pending

Mass Drivers on the Moon - Enabling a Lunar Economy

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 26, 202636:46pending

Mass Drivers on the Moon - Enabling a Lunar Economy (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 26, 202636:45pending

Molecular Industry: Factories Made of DNA (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 23, 202625:16pending

Molecular Industry: Factories Made of DNA

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 23, 202625:35pending

How New Space Settlements Avoid Early Collapse

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 21, 202628:51pending

How New Space Settlements Avoid Early Collapse (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 21, 202628:29pending

What Are the Limits of Human Knowledge? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 19, 202635:44pending

What Are the Limits of Human Knowledge?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 19, 202636:03pending

The Great Lunar Boom: Building a Civilization on the Moon (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 16, 202627:52pending

The Great Lunar Boom: Building a Civilization on the Moon

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 16, 202628:13pending

The End of Time: Heat Death, Big Rip, or Big Crunch? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 11, 202658:10pending

The End of Time: Heat Death, Big Rip, or Big Crunch?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 11, 202658:32pending

The Most Dangerous Stars in the Universe

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 9, 202625:04pending

The Most Dangerous Stars in the Universe (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 9, 202624:44pending

Digital Immortality - Backing Up the Human Soul (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 5, 202625:10pending

Digital Immortality - Backing Up the Human Soul

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 5, 202625:28pending

Is AI the Great Filter? | The Fermi Paradox (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 2, 202641:13pending

Is AI the Great Filter? | The Fermi Paradox

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jul 2, 202641:27pending

Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 28, 202640:21pending

Water Shielded Starships - Surviving Radiation in Deep Space

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 28, 202640:46pending

Antimatter Containment - Bottling the Lightning (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 25, 202626:21pending

Antimatter Containment - Bottling the Lightning

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 25, 202626:39pending

What If We Found a Second Earth Nearby? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 23, 202629:04pending

What If We Found a Second Earth Nearby?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 23, 202629:27pending

Why Haven’t We Found Dyson Spheres Yet? (Narration Only)

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 20, 202638:34pending

Why Haven’t We Found Dyson Spheres Yet?

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

Jun 20, 202638:53pending

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