The Multiverse Employee Handbook

Wish You Were Here

The Multiverse Employee Handbook is taking a brief holiday. Our narrator is currently horizontal in a field outside Innsbruck, the Alps are doing their thing, and Season

Season 4 Trailer - The Multiverse Employee Handbook

Season 4 is Coming: The Universe Remains Uncooperative The Multiverse Employee Handbook returns for a fourth season of science, satire, and the quiet suspicion that real

Is Space Trying to Kill Us? (Radiation)

Space radiation is constant, omnidirectional, and entirely unbothered by your feelings about it. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r/nr1evM

Our Other Nearest Neighbours

Humanity has spent thousands of years naming constellations, building calendars, and writing mythology onto the night sky — largely ignoring the actual stars next door.

Is Tau Ceti Our Project Hail Mary?

Eleven point nine light-years away, in the constellation of a mythological sea monster, sits a star that astronomers, SETI researchers, and science fiction writers have b

Rewind: Don’t Panic - 42 and the Cosmic Coincidences

Join us for a towel-mandatory celebration of Douglas Adams as we explore the most suspiciously significant number in the multiverse! 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in

Why The Renewed Interest in Uranus?

Uranus has been rolling through the solar system on its side for four and a half billion years, confidently labelled an ice giant since a single spacecraft spent six hour

What Happens if We Catch a Graviton? (It Changes Everything)

Gravity has been operating continuously, without maintenance, since approximately 13.8 billion years ago — and it still hasn't confirmed its own carrier particle. 🎧 Love

Srinivasa Ramanujan: A Life in Numbers

In January 1913, Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy received a letter from an unknown clerk in Madras containing nine pages of mathematical theorems with no proofs—just r

Can We Live On the Moon?

More than fifty years after Eugene Cernan left the last human bootprint in lunar regolith, the Moon has become the focal point of a new space race driven by geopolitics,

The Red Dots At The Beginning of Time

In 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered something impossible: compact, mysteriously bright red objects scattered throughout the early universe, glowing far too

Space Hotels Are Here (Sort Of)

Space tourism has arrived—sort of—transitioning from impossible dream to technically achievable reality for the extraordinarily wealthy. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve

Where Are We?

An exploration of humanity's most straightforward question that turns out not to be straightforward at all: where are we? 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes:

Artemis II

An exploration of Artemis II—humanity's first crewed return to lunar space in over fifty years, launching February 2026. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: h

GPS: How the Military Built Your Fitness Tracker

An exploration of how GPS evolved from $12 billion military infrastructure designed to guide nuclear missiles into the civilian technology that tracks your morning jog, n

Aliens Are Probably Boring (And That’s the Real Problem)

A look at the Fermi Paradox, the Great Silence, and the unsettling possibility that advanced civilizations evolve into something indistinguishable from accounting softwar

2025 As a Mathematical Concept

As 2025 draws to a close, we're examining 2025 as a number—ignoring the arbitrary calendar to explore its mathematical properties. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2

The End of the ISS (and What Comes After)

The International Space Station—humanity's most ambitious construction project and longest-running orbital flatshare—is scheduled for retirement in 2030. 🎧 Love the show

That “Lost” Asteroid That Might Hit Earth

In 2007, astronomers spotted a 54-million-ton asteroid, tracked it for just 1.2 days, and then lost it. 🎧 Love the show? Help us improve in 2 minutes: https://tally.so/r

A Brief History of Humans Yelling Into Space: The Arecibo Message

This week marks fifty-one years since humanity’s most enthusiastic “Hello” to the cosmos — a three-minute binary broadcast known as the Arecibo Message. 🎧 Love the show?