#195 – Clara Sousa-Silva: Searching for Signs of Life on Venus and Other Planets

Clara Sousa-Silva is a quantum astrochemist at Harvard. Please
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (07:57)
- Discovery of phosphine on Venus (20:34) - Phosphine gas (30:47) -
Searching for molecular fingerprints (41:44) - What does a quantum
astrochemist do? (56:48) - Spectroscopic networks (1:01:13) -
Biosignature gases (1:04:06) - UFOs and aliens (1:17:24) - Alien
civilizations (1:34:59) - Programming (1:42:15) - Why science is
beautiful (1:46:07) - How to be productive (1:56:27) - Books
(1:57:59) - Meaning of life