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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

A podcast of science stories, ideas, and speculations. Hosted by Professor Brian Keating

Big Bang Productions Inc. · Brian Keating

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Show overview

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating has been publishing since 2018, and across the 8 years since has built a catalogue of 634 episodes, alongside 8 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 710 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence, with the show now in its 7th season.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 50 min and 1h 21m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Science show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed yesterday, with 55 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2024, with 105 episodes published. Published by Brian Keating.

Episodes
634
Running
2018–2026 · 8y
Median length
1h 4m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all. If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity. Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast

Latest Episodes

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Robert Wright: AI Alignment Is a Moral Problem, Not a Technical One

Sep 30, 20261h 0m

Former NASA Physicist: The UAP Maneuver That Should Have Exploded

Sep 27, 20261h 3m

Carlo Rovelli: Free Will Is Real. Physics Can Prove It.

Sep 22, 20261h 6m

They Built the Quietest Place on Earth to Find Dark Matter

Sep 17, 20262h 5m

Dark Matter Has a Problem. So Does MOND.

Sep 15, 202615 min

OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes Claim: Is This What AGI Looks Like? | Emad Mostaque

Sep 9, 20261h 18m

Roman Yampolskiy vs Emad Mostaque: I Was The Only Optimist

Sep 1, 202658 min

The Universe Didn’t Come From Nothing | The Peter McCormack Show

Aug 28, 20261h 46m

The Physics Reason AI Works When It Shouldn’t

Aug 25, 20261h 17m

Engineering Chair: Most People Should Not Go To College

Aug 18, 20261h 0m

John Martinis: The Nobel Physicist Behind Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling

Aug 11, 202645 min

Fermilab’s Scott Dodelson on Cosmology’s Crisis

Aug 4, 202640 min

Faith & the Physicist: Aliens, Astrobiology, String Theory, and the Search for Meaning

Jul 31, 20261h 11m

Annie Jacobsen: How One Lab Leak Ends the World in 6 Days

Jul 28, 20261h 49m

We Built Something We Can’t Control | A Warning from Top AI Safety Expert

Jul 21, 20261h 19m

Michael Shermer: The Only Skeptic on the Alien Task Force

Jul 15, 20261h 7m

400K Subscribers Asked Me Anything. The Answers Got Weird.

Jul 11, 20262h 3m

Top Astronomer: UFOs Are STILL Here

Jul 7, 20261h 5m

Nobel Economist: The Market That Lets People Die

Jun 30, 20261h 21m

Dead Cows, Aliens, & Ghosts: How Kevin Knuth Connects Them All

Jun 26, 202625 min
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