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KAKU ON ‘THE REALLY BIG ONE’ MEGA-QUAKE

CBS News science and futurist contributor, Dr. Michio Kaku returns to ‘CBS This Morning’ to discuss Kathryn Schulz‘s recent New Yorker article, ‘The Really Big One’ — an examination of the Cascadia subduction zone that predicts a "mega-quake" capable of wiping out a major portion of the Pacific Northwest and potentially triggering the worst natural disaster in North American recorded history. WATCH NOW!

WANT MORE MEGA-QUAKE? – BONUS

Dr. Kaku discusses the mega-quake on FOX NEWS. CLICK NOW!

KAKU ON PLUTO NEW HORIZONS SUCCESS

On the historic success of NASA‘s space mission to the Pluto System, the New Horizons space probe has started sending back the first-ever high resolution close-up images of the dwarf planet’s surface. The data is traveling across a staggering three billion miles of space — the same distance traveled by the probe on its trek to Pluto and beyond. Meanwhile, here on Earth, scientists are studying the data as it continues to stream in. Dr. Michio Kaku joins Ed Schultz of MSNBC’s ‘The Ed Show’ to discuss the scientific and historic significance of New Horizons revelations about Pluto. WATCH NOW!

WANT MORE PLUTO? – BONUS CONTENT
Dr. Kaku‘s Op-Ed for WALL STREET JOURNAL. CLICK NOW!
Dr. Kaku discusses Pluto on CBS THIS MORNING. CLICK NOW!

KAKU ON PACIFIC NORTHWEST MEGA-QUAKE

A recent New Yorker report predicts a so-called "mega-quake," a catastrophic seismic event, likely to destroy a significant part of the Pacific Northwest region of the United States — taking the lives of an estimated 13,000 people along with it. Worse still, the report cites FEMA calculations indicating that such an earthquake would seem to be overdue. Physicist and futurist, Dr. Michio Kaku joins Shepard Smith on FOX NEWS to confirm that the danger is far from overstated. "The Cascadia fault is an earthquake waiting to happen.", said Kaku, "We know it’s going to happen with an energy 30 times the maximum energy of the San Andreas fault." WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON PLUTO: HISTORY AT THE EDGE

Three billion miles from Earth, NASA‘s New Horizons space probe just flew by Pluto. The journey to the farthest edge of our solar system took nearly a decade to achieve. CBS News science and futurist contributor, Dr. Michio Kaku, who wrote an op-ed article for the Wall Street Journal entitled ‘That Pluto Probe Just Might Save the Earth’, joins ‘CBS This Morning’ to explain how this feat affects us here at home. WATCH NOW!

KAKU WALL STREET JOURNAL OP-ED: THAT PLUTO PROBE JUST MIGHT SAVE THE EARTH

New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft humanity has ever launched has also traveled longer and farther than any other — more than nine years and three billion miles — beyond any space mission in history to reach its primary target. Today marks a historic milestone in the journey, as New Horizons flies by Pluto and its system of at least five known moons, sending back breakthrough reconnaissance. What new insights will that Pluto probe reveal to expand our understanding of other such planet-threatening comets? Dr. Michio Kaku offers us his perspective in a special op-ed article written by Dr. Kaku himself for the Wall Street Journal. READ NOW!

WANT MORE PLUTO? – BONUS CONTENT

See Dr. Kaku discuss Pluto on CBS THIS MORNING. CLICK NOW!

KAKU ON LATEST SPACEX EXPLOSION

On the heels of a third SpaceX rocket launch failure, CBSN, the "Always On" online news network from CBS NEWS, invited Dr. Michio Kaku to discuss the matter with CBSN‘s Jeff Glor. What are the ramifications of this accident? Does it pose any future impact on SpaceX‘s or NASA‘s plans for the International Space Station? What does this setback suggest about the ongoing commercialization of space? WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON FOX BUSINESS: PICK YOUR POISON

Dr. Michio Kaku sits down with Stuart Varney on FOX Business for a rapid-fire discussion of the science behind a number of life-threatening developments happening right now that could really ruin your day. Pick your poison: Will it be death by over-speeding train? How about a mysterious and systematic breakdown in the food chain? Why not cut to the quick with a mile-wide asteroid on a collision course for Earth? All are covered in a lively session you really should see. WATCH NOW!

READY FOR MORE? – BONUS BROADCAST

Dr. Kaku joins the quick and quirky Kennedy on FOX Business to chat about planet-busting asteroids and… baked goods? WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON SCIENCE OF NEPAL AFTERSHOCK

What’s the difference between an earthquake and an aftershock? For the people of Nepal, grappling with a 7.3-magintude aftershock of the quake that rocked the region just weeks ago, it hardly matters… or does it?

Dr. Michio Kaku returns to MSNBC appearing on ‘NOW with Alex Wagner‘ to discuss the science of earthquakes, aftershocks, and the relative predictability of major seismic events like the Nepal disaster. WATCH NOW!

KAKU ON TESLA POWERWALL BATTERY

Dr. Michio Kaku returns to CNN International’s ‘Quest Means Business’ to discuss Tesla Motors‘ recent push into new frontiers for its energy storage technology and know-how; going beyond the realm of Tesla CEO, Elon Musk‘s, vision for an all-electric car and launching an off-shoot brand — Tesla Energy.

Kaku is an advocate of the venture, asserting that Musk is "onto something" with this unveiling, further affirming that an advancement in energy storage like that presented by Tesla Powerwall has the potential to be a "game changer" for solar, wind, and renewable energy initiatives. WATCH NOW!

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY

@michiokaku: May The 4th Be With You! Happy #StarWarsDay to my many fellow @starwars fans. Science fiction fuels science reality!