Podcast Episodes
Back to Search🔬 Your Brain Has Secret Connections, Glaciers Are Lunging Forward & A Hidden Freshwater World Just Emerged
Episode 310
Scientists have finally captured cell membrane lipids in action for the first time, a discovery that could reshape our understanding of disease and d…
3Â months, 1Â week ago
🔬 Zoo Penguins Are Aging Faster, A Blood Test Could Predict Dementia Decades Early & Rogue Planets May Harbor Life
Episode 309
A shocking new study reveals that zoo penguins age faster than wild ones despite living longer — and the implications for human health are hard to ig…
3Â months, 1Â week ago
🔬 Japan's Supervolcano Is Recharging, A New Dinosaur Was Just Named After a Cartoon & The Space Fertility Crisis No One Is Talking About
Episode 308
South Korea just named its first new dinosaur species in 15 years — and the story behind the name is as charming as the discovery is significant. Mea…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 Ants Can Reprogram Themselves, A New Bird Species Was Hiding In Plain Sight & Scientists Just Shattered Solar Energy's "Impossible" Limit
Episode 307
Researchers have discovered that ant colony recognition systems are far more flexible than previously believed, upending what we thought we knew abou…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 45 Worlds That Could Harbor Life, A 50-Year Star Mystery Solved & What Scientists Just Found at the Bottom of the Pacific
Episode 306
Researchers have identified 45 rocky exoplanets in habitable zones — including candidates in the TRAPPIST-1 and Proxima Centauri systems — that could…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 Arctic Rhinos, 50-Year Star Mysteries Cracked & The Insulin Pill That Could Change Everything
Episode 305
This week on Peer Review'd, supercomputers finally solve a decades-old puzzle about what's happening deep inside aging stars, while astronomers unmas…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 Hidden Death Switch Found in the Brain, Quantum Batteries Charged in Seconds & Ancient Moon Rocks Are Rewriting History
Episode 304
Scientists have identified a toxic protein pairing in the brain that acts like a hidden death switch, triggering the destruction of neurons and drivi…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 Just Discovered: 68,000-Year-Old Cave Art, An 'Impossible' Alien Atmosphere & The Cancer Treatment Being Reinvented Inside Your Body
Episode 303
Archaeologists have identified the world's oldest known cave art — a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia with a strange, claw-like shape that h…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 Bull Sharks Have Best Friends, Quantum Light Hides 48 Dimensions & Your Gut Bacteria Could Fight Cancer
Episode 302
Scientists have upended the reputation of one of the ocean's most feared predators, revealing that bull sharks form lasting social bonds and choose p…
3Â months, 2Â weeks ago
🔬 Darwin Was Wrong About This? Cacti, Cotton Candy Planets & The Fungi That Control Rain
Episode 301
New research is rewriting the rules of evolution — and cacti are at the center of it. Scientists have also discovered that hibernating animals may ho…
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago