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Cool Worlds Podcast

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Conversations between Professor David Kipping and guests, spanning astronomy, technology, science and engineering. This is the official podcast of the Cool Worlds Lab at Columbia University and their popular YouTube channel ”Cool Worlds”. Podcast episodes are filmed and can be found online through our YouTube channels.

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Position in the Science chart (US), last 90 days.

#21
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days in the top 3 since Jan 2025

Latest episodes

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#35 Lee Cronin - Chemputation, Origin of Life, Assembly Theory

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Aug 19
1 h 43 min

#34 Solo Episode - We Need to Talk About That "First Exomoon" Discovery

Special solo episode about the recent news of the first exomoon discovery. To support this podcast and our research lab, head to https://coolworldslab.com/support Cool

Aug 7
1 h 05 min

#33 Sarah Rugheimer - LIFE Mission, Prebiosignatures, Mountains

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Jun 27
1 h 55 min

#32 Chris Lintott - Technosignatures, Citizen Science, Scicomm

In this week's episode, David is joined by Chris Lintott, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford University and presenter of BBC's "The Sky At Night". To support this podcast

Apr 13
1 h 36 min

#31 Joshua Winn - Exoplanet History, Discoveries and Future

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Feb 12
1 h 07 min

#30 Solo Episode - We Need To Talk About AI

This episode is a bit different in that it's a solo-episode! I spent this week visiting the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton, and one meeting in particular shook

Feb 1
1 h 14 min

#29 Nick Bostrom - Simulation Theory, Anthropic Reasoning, Great Filters

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Jan 28
1 h 05 min

#28 Néstor Espinoza - JWST, Exoplanet Atmospheres, Molecule Detection

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Dec 5 2025
1 h 40 min

#27 Jason Steffen - Kepler Mission Legacy, Particle Physics, Optimal Plane Boarding

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Nov 7 2025
1 h 50 min

#26 Will Kinney - Before the Big Bang, Inflation, Infinity of Worlds

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Oct 9 2025
2 h 13 min

#25 Matt O'Dowd - PBS Spacetime, Science on YouTube, Quasars

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Sep 6 2025
1 h 39 min

#24 Colin Hill - Modern Cosmology, Hubble Tension, Exotic Physics

In this week's episode, David is joined by Colin Hill, Professor of Physics at Columbia University. Colin is a world renowned expert working at the cutting edge of modern

Aug 8 2025
1 h 55 min

#23 Geraint Lewis - Fine-Tuning, Multiverse, Cosmological Tensions

In this week's episode, David is joined by Geraint Lewis, Professor of Astrophysics at Sydney University. Geraint is a proponent of the fine-tuning argument as evidence f

Jun 26 2025
1 h 17 min

#22 Sara Walker - Origin of Life, Assembly Theory, Biosignatures

In this week's episode, David is joined by Sara Imari Walker, Professor of Earth & Space Exploration at the Arizona State University. Prof Walker has spent the last few y

May 18 2025
1 h 10 min

#21 Edwin Kite - Early Mars, Terraforming/Settling Mars

In this week's episode, David is joined by Edwin Kite, Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago. Prof Kite is a Participating Scientist for the NASA

Apr 25 2025
1 h 18 min

#20 Natalie Batalha - Kepler Mission, Exoplanets with JWST, Future Imagers

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Mar 12 2025
1 h 00 min

#19 Brian Keating - Inflation, B Modes and Losing the Nobel Prize

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Feb 8 2025
1 h 53 min

#18 Nick Searra - Alien Communication, Golden Record, Future Relics

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Jan 15 2025
1 h 15 min

#17 Adam Riess - Modern Cosmology, Hubble Tension, New Physics

In this week's episode, David is joined by Nobel laureate Adam Riess, Bloomberg Distinguish Professor and Thomas J Barbar Professor of Physics & Astronomy at John Hopkins

Nov 9 2024
1 h 03 min

#16 Janna Levin - Black Holes, Singularities & Wormholes

In this week's episode, David is joined by Prof Janna Levin, Professor of Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Janna is an expert in the theoretical physi

Oct 7 2024
1 h 18 min

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