#PPOD: Closest-Ever Images to Sun This video, made from images taken by Parker Solar Probe’s WISPR instrument during its record-breaking flyby of the Sun on Dec. 25, 2024, shows the solar wind racing out from the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Naval Research Lab | SETI Institute

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Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer for the SETI Institute, joins us for this episode - and tells us that we’ll make contact with an intelligent alien civilization by 2035 or sooner… | Bob & Sheri

Whales have been on this planet for longer than humans have walked upright. Are they intelligent? Linguists contend that even the most intelligent non-human animals lack a communication system that could be called language. But could whales prove an exception? Biologists have studied whales for decades and quickly realized that they lead complex social lives. For example, sperm whales have the animal kingdom’s biggest brains, six times larger than ours. They live in female-dominated social netwo