New Frontiers

For this episode of New Frontiers… Host Erika Hamden gets ready for 3 upcoming University of Arizona NASA missions; travels to the Marana airport to meet with colleague and fellow pilot, Jack Holt; prepares for the Europa Clipper mission by visiting a U of A photogrammetry lab; checks in with the new Principal Investigator for the spacecraft responsible for the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Host Erika Hamden explores quantum mysteries. We visit a University of Arizona lab where the world’s fastest electron microscope is capable of viewing subatomic particles in motion, and we meet with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to discuss his profound theory of quantum consciousness.

Host Dr. Erika Hamden Ph.D, Professor of Astrophysics at the U of A, visits the University of Arizona’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory to learn about recent missions to visit asteroids and views dust from asteroid Bennu which was recently brought to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Then, she meets with scientists from the SPACEWATCH program who use telescopes on Kitt Peak to scan our skies nightly for hazardous asteroids that might one day threaten our planet.

Host Erika Hamden checks in with the Event Horizon Project, which brought us the first-ever images of black holes; visits the Wyant College of Optical Sciences to discover the latest developments in virtual reality technology; learns about how researchers are using robotics and augmented reality technologies to make educational tools that allow visually-impaired students to grasp engineering concepts.

For this episode of New Frontiers… Host Erika Hamden examines ways in which philosophers and scientists sort through public misperception and conspiracy theories to seek the truth; chats with philosopher Hannah Kim about the importance of critical thinking in our age of misinformation; probes into how social media technology has skewed our political realities; dives into the controversy around the origin of COVID-19 and discovers how public opinion on the subject might be misguided.

For this premiere episode of New Frontiers, we introduce host Erika Hamden, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona who is working to become an astronaut; we get the latest updates on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from two of the scientists who helped construct its cameras; we visit with researchers who are building swarms of robots designed to colonize the moon.

For this premiere episode of New Frontiers, we introduce host Erika Hamden, an astrophysicist at the University of Arizona who is working to become an astronaut; we get the latest updates on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope from two of the scientists who helped construct its cameras; we visit with researchers who are building swarms of robots designed to colonize the moon.