Hosts Lester Narre and Krishna Chowdery introduce Part 1 of their coverage of the 2026 Golden Goose Awards, given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science to honor federally funded basic research that led to unexpected practical applications. They preview three stories to be covered: histotripsy, NASA's nighttime satellite imaging, and Sidney Nagel's work on everyday physics, with interviews and a conversation with AAAS CEO Sudip Parikh coming in Part 2.
192 words · auto-generated from the episode video
1:19Hello internet. This is your captain speaking Lester Narre joined as always by my co-host and our resident PhD Krishna Chowdery. This week is part one of our special coverage of the 2026 Golden Goose Awards organized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science or TripleA. These awards are meant to shine a light on federally funded research that starts out as basic research and results in incredible practical applications, hence the name Golden Goose. By the time you are watching this, we will have attended
1:59the ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington DC and have done interviews with all three of the award-winning research stories that we are going to cover today. Those interviews along with our conversation with AAAS CEO Sudep Periq will be coming out in part two. Today we're going to be getting to know the researchers and unpacking the science behind their discoveries. As always, we are going to talk about the science from the ground up. And if you want to get the best coverage of the latest breaking science around the world, be sure to subscribe. Now for our first story,
HistotripsySpaceSoft Matter Physics