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Back to Search🔬 Ancient Enzymes, Dinosaur Nests & a Surprising Alzheimer's Discovery Just Changed What Scientists Thought They Knew
Episode 300
A peptide long dismissed as harmless may be rewriting our understanding of Alzheimer's disease, while a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme has been brought …
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago
🔬 NASA's Metal World Has a Secret, A Man Survived Without Lungs & More Discoveries Just Dropped
Episode 299
NASA's Psyche mission is closing in on a mysterious metal asteroid that may be the exposed core of a long-dead planet — and a newly identified crater…
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago
🔬 A Dying Star Shaped Like a Brain, a Cancer Breakthrough Turning Heads & a Particle That Wasn't Supposed to Exist
Episode 298
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a haunting nebula resembling a human brain, while astronomers have confirmed the first-ever direct obs…
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago
🔬 Ancient Sponges Just Rewrote the Timeline of Life — And That's Only the Beginning
Episode 297
Researchers have discovered a previously unknown order of marine sponges that may push back the origin of animal life further than anyone expected, f…
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago
🔬 Just In: The Moon's Far Side Hides Ancient Secrets — And That's Just the Start
Episode 296
China's Chang'e-6 mission has returned lunar samples revealing shocking chemical fingerprints that rewrite the violent history of the Moon's far side…
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago
🔬 Quantum Internet Just Got Real — Plus Zombie Trees, Cancer Breakthroughs & A 3,000-Year-Old Secret Uncovered
Episode 295
Scientists have achieved a world-first milestone in quantum teleportation using quantum dots, moving us closer to a secure quantum internet than ever…
3Â months, 3Â weeks ago
🔬 We Just Mapped the Early Universe — And That's Only the Beginning
Episode 294
Astronomers have produced the most detailed 3D map ever of the early universe, revealing a vast hidden web of galaxies and gas that rewrites our unde…
3Â months, 4Â weeks ago
🔬 Two Planets Just Collided 11,000 Light-Years Away — And That's Not Even the Biggest Story This Week
Episode 293
Scientists have upended decades of thinking about depression, tracing its roots to a surprising cellular energy problem in the brain that could chang…
3Â months, 4Â weeks ago
🔬 Saliva Tests for Diabetes, Monster Stars Detected & A 43% Drop in Heart Risk Just Revealed
Episode 292
Scientists may have found a way to detect diabetes risk using nothing but saliva, while a puzzling discovery suggests ice cream eaters sometimes show…
4Â months ago
🔬 Humanity's Oldest Migration Just Got Older — Plus a New Mineral on Mars Nobody Expected
Episode 291
Scientists have pushed back the timeline of early human migration by hundreds of thousands of years after confirming a key archaeological site in the…
4Â months ago