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Back to Search🔬 Scientists Just Found a Hidden Brain Circuit Behind Chronic Pain — And It Changes Everything
Episode 320
Stanford researchers have mapped a previously unknown brain circuit responsible for chronic pain that operates entirely separately from normal pain p…
3 months ago
🔬 A 'Lost World' Just Rewrote Earth's History — And That's Not Even the Biggest Story This Week
Episode 319
Scientists have unearthed a 540-million-year-old 'lost world' of ancient animals in China, pushing back the timeline for complex life and rewriting o…
3 months ago
🔬 Cancer's Hidden Weakness, Earth's Gold Kitchen & A 436-Million-Year-Old Fish Just Changed Everything
Episode 318
Researchers have discovered that cancer cells may be hijacking a molecule normally used to protect healthy cells, pointing to a potential new way to …
3 months ago
🔬 AI Just Heard Cancer in Your Voice — Plus Martian Lightning, Quantum Batteries & A 12,000-Year-Old Gambling Secret
Episode 317
Scientists have developed an AI that can detect laryngeal cancer simply by analyzing patterns in a person's voice, while a separate study found gut b…
3 months ago
🔬 Humans Just Left Earth's Orbit & Physicists Are Stunned By What a Liquid Just Did
Episode 316
For the first time since 1972, humans are venturing beyond Earth orbit as NASA's Artemis II crew makes its way toward the Moon — and the spacecraft w…
3 months, 1 week ago
🔬 A Single Injection Restored Hearing, Ancient Fossils Just Rewrote Evolution & Something In Your Sweat Is Fighting The Flu
Episode 315
A groundbreaking gene therapy delivered in a single injection is giving deaf patients the ability to hear within weeks, while researchers have uncove…
3 months, 1 week ago
🔬 Humans Are Orbiting the Moon Again — Plus Zombie Cells, Warrior Wheat & an Inside-Out Solar System
Episode 314
NASA's Artemis II mission has just launched four astronauts on the first crewed lunar journey in over fifty years, marking a historic leap toward ret…
3 months, 1 week ago
🔬 Cells Have Hidden Winds, Mars Was Wetter Than We Thought & A 40-Year-Old Can of Salmon Just Revealed Something About Our Oceans
Episode 313
Scientists have discovered mysterious "cellular winds" inside living cells — internal airflow-like currents that may explain how aggressive cancers s…
3 months, 1 week ago
🔬 Your Coffee Is Protecting Your Brain, A 7-Hour Explosion Defies Physics, & The Universe's Origin Just Got Rewritten
Episode 312
A landmark study reveals that two to three cups of coffee daily may cut dementia risk by up to 35%, but there's a catch that most coffee drinkers won…
3 months, 1 week ago
🔬 Antarctica Is Controlling Life Across the Planet — And Scientists Just Found Out How
Episode 311
New research reveals that ancient Antarctic ice cycles once dictated biological productivity in subtropical oceans thousands of miles away, while a s…
3 months, 1 week ago