Weird Convection on Venus and a Wrinkle in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model

09/04/2025 43 min Episodio 391
Weird Convection on Venus and a Wrinkle in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter Model

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Episode Synopsis

Venus's extra-thick crust may be extra chewy, allowing convection to occur and helping power volcanoes into the current era. New observations of the distant universe, meanwhile, show that dark energy may not have behaved as expected in the standard cosmological model. We'll break it all down for you together with space news and trivia with your friendly neighborhood astroquarks.