Episodes

Roman concrete's "hot mixing" secret, brains building thoughts like LEGO, DeepSeek's stability trick for scaling nets, and a universal square-root law of market impact.

Honoring MIT's Nuno Loureiro and unpacking magnetic reconnection, the physics behind solar flares and fusion stability.

The full DNA origin story—from Mendel to Photo 51—tracking the experiments, rivalries, and ethical fault lines that shaped the double helix.

3I/ATLAS enters the solar system, fired-casing fingerprints become recoverable, and microglia reshape the Alzheimer's model.

Hypersonic turbulence validated at Mach 6, deep-sea alkaline life reframes alien searches, and Princeton's millisecond transmon pushes quantum hardware forward.

Octopus-camouflage pigment made in bacteria, orcas outsmart great whites, civet coffee chemistry explained, and UCLA beats the diffraction limit in telescopes.

OncoGAN's synthetic cancer genomes, a wireless retinal implant restoring vision in AMD, and a first-principles audit of Palomar "mystery lights."

The story of Chen Ning Yang—parity violation, Yang–Mills gauge theory, and why symmetry and beauty became the roadmap to modern physics.

Portable lab-scale muon beams, sodium-ion batteries nearing lithium performance, and naked mole rats revealing a potential DNA-repair "longevity switch."

A Nobel Week debrief plus the FFP origin story—why funding, immigration, and fundamental research shape the future of American science.

All three 2025 science Nobels in one episode—Tregs and immune tolerance, macroscopic quantum tunneling in circuits, and MOFs redefining materials chemistry.

Deep dives into two recent Nobel-winning domains—gene editing (CRISPR) and gravitational waves (LIGO)

Breaking down the latest breakthroughs across AI, physics, biology, and astronomy

Perseverance, Jezero, Bright Angel Formation, and inorganic proxies for life

New 3I/Atlas observations, evidence that life expectancy may be plateauing, a nickel catalyst for no-sort plastic recycling, and Microsoft's ultra-efficient analog AI computer.

A never-seen "naked" supernova, Trojan-horse microbes that target cancer, spintronics turning electron spin into power, and a CRISPR bee superfood.

Brain implants decoding inner speech, genomic "switches" that shaped humans, tougher lab-grown diamonds, and a fast tour of 100 years of quantum mechanics.

3I ATLAS inbound, Rubin's all-sky time-lapse revolution, AI making CRISPR repairs cleaner, and synchrotron physics spotting T. rex blood vessels.

The first molecule in the universe, rewriting biology's protein alphabet, Europa Clipper's ice radar tested at Mars, and MIT's new twist on the double-slit paradox.

Betelgeuse's possible hidden companion, atoms vibrating caught on camera, IceCube's OMG-energy cosmic rays, and New Horizons proving deep-space "GPS" without Earth.

Six rapid-fire frontiers—Earth's fastest spin, a baby planet forming, a record black-hole merger, a CRISPR cancer "kill switch," a double-detonation supernova, and DeepMind's Aeneas AI.