Neil deGrasse Tyson is back in Cosmos: Possible Worlds Neil deGrasse Tyson is back this coming Spring in a new version of the series Cosmos. The new show, Cosmos: Possible Worlds is currently in production and is going to give us a look at the world we could possibly have. The series is still on my constant re-watch list, so I’m really...
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Tamara Robertson, host of the upcoming Science Channel series SciJinks joins us on the Legion of Leia podcast! On this week’s Legion of Leia podcast, myself and my co-host Anastasia Washington welcome Tamara Robertson! Tamara has a chemical and biomolecular engineering degree, was a finalist on Mythbusters: The Search and has a brand new...
Award-Winning Cosmologist and Theoretical Physicist Stephen Hawking died yesterday. As many know, Stephen Hawking was a cosmologist and theoretical physicist known mostly for his black hole theories. He died the morning of March 14th, 2018 at the age of 76 at his home in Cambridge. His family states that he died peacefully. In 1963, Hawking was...
BBC America has released the episode trailer and images from this week’s episode of Doctor Who. The fifth episode is titled ‘Oxygen’ and you can find the synopsis for the episode below: The Doctor, Bill and Nardole answer a distress call in deep space, and find themselves trapped on board space station Chasm Forge. All but four of the crew...
BBC America has released the episode trailer and images from this week’s episode of Doctor Who. The third episode is titled ‘Thin Ice’ and you can find the synopsis for the episode below: London, 1814. The entire city has turned out for the biggest Frost Fair in decades! But beneath the frozen Thames, revelers are disappearing...
Hey Legion! On this week’s Legion of Leia Podcast episode 62, my co-hosts Anastasia Washington, Sabina Ibarra and I welcome Rileah Vanderbilt and Jes Reaves, creators of Celestial Body Swimwear! These suits are designed around space and NASA, and they’re amazing! Not only that, but the ladies are donating 5% of their profits to...
Earlier this week we got a good and scary look at the first trailer for 20th Century Fox’s Alien: Covenant. Today they released a red-band trailer that shows a little bit more blood than the original, which gives us a better idea of how gruesome the new installment in the franchise will be. I, for one, am truly terrified to go see this...
Bang! Zoom! Straight to the Moon! Elon Musk announced today that SpaceX is going to put two private citizens on a passenger flight around the moon in 2018 using the Dragon 2 spacecraft and the new Falcon Heavy rocket. These “two private citizens” (currently unnamed) approached SpaceX about putting them on a trip around the moon...
A System of Other Earths Scientists working with the European Southern Observatory and NASA made a remarkable doscorvery: An entire system filled with Earth-sized planets. But wait, there’s more. The discovery team asserts that six of the innermost planets are as rocky as our grand blue marble. Three of those six are within their...
What a week for 90s educational TV shows for kids. First Netflix announces the return The Magic School Bus and now Bill Nye is making science cool again for all the new youths out there! Bill Nye Saves the World follows Nye as he tackles a variety of fun experiments and refutes hot-topic anti-scientific beliefs, including GMOs and climate change...