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Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard?
Season 1
Particle physics hasn't yet found the new physics needed to resolve its deepest mysteries. It’s hard to know what to think about or look for. But the…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Audio Edition: How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward.
Season 1
Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI.
The story …
8 months ago
Does Dad's Fitness Make Its Way Into Sperm?
Season 1
We already know that what we eat, drink, and inhale can affect which parts of our DNA are expressed, and which aren’t. But recent research poses a sh…
8 months ago
The Shape That Can’t Pass Through Itself
Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s big enough for the other to slide through? It is —…
8 months, 1 week ago
Audio Edition: How Much Energy Does It Take To Think?
Season 1
Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our most complex organ.
The sto…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
AI Filters Will Always Have Holes
Season 1
Ask ChatGPT how to build a bomb, and it will flatly respond that it “can’t help with that.” But users have long played a cat-and-mouse game to try to…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
ICYMI: Birds' Migratory Mitochondria
(This episode was first published in June 2025.)
Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
ICYMI: Is Gravity Just Rising Entropy?
(This episode was first published in July 2025.)
Where does gravity come from? In both general relativity and quantum mechanics, this question is a b…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Audio Edition: The Core of Fermat’s Last Theorem Just Got Superpowered
Season 1 Episode 39
By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward building a “grand unified …
9 months ago
Taking the Temperature of Quantum Entanglement
Season 1 Episode 38
We all know that hot coffee cools down. But quantum mechanics can enable heat to flow the “wrong” way, making hot objects hotter and cold objects col…
9 months ago