Curiosity Daily Podcast: Local Honey Myths, NASA to the Moon, and a Bisexual 17th-Century Operatic Swordfighter

A rare lunar crystal found on the near side of the moon is giving scientists hope of providing limitless power for the world – forever.

Sure, the Moon is cool to look at, and fun to think about it. And it literally affects us here on the Earth: without the Moon, we’d be missing half our tides, and likely our planet’s rotation wouldn’t be as stable as it is.

Space hotels may be in our future.

The last time Jupiter appeared this large and bright in the sky was in October 1963.

Spoiler alert: It's an optical illusion.

We discuss the latest in phone hacking technology, how aquaculture may be able to help the global food crisis, and how engaging with people who speak in a foreign accent may help us retain language.

Let’s talk about whether “man flu” is fact or fiction, how the Arctic lakes just threw a curveball at our climate change projections, and the genius new way bats are tricking their predators.

NASA sent a spacecraft on a mission to crash into an asteroid, so how did it go?Updated 9/26/22

Read on to learn about this rare opportunity to name a distant world observed by the James Webb Telescope.

In 2018 the Japanese space agency sent the Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu, As a part of that mission, the spacecraft blasted material off the surface of the asteroid, put it in a bottle, and sent it back to Earth. Two years later that sample landed in the western deserts of Australia.