Podcast Episodes
Back to Search🔬 A Microbe Just Broke Biology's Most Fundamental Rule — And That's Just the Start
Episode 281
Scientists at UC Berkeley have discovered an archaeon that ignores the universal genetic code, using stop signals to produce two entirely different p…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 Just Captured: The Milky Way's Beating Heart, Moon's Secret Magnetic Past & More Game-Changing Discoveries
Episode 280
Astronomers have just released ALMA's largest-ever image of our galaxy's center, unveiling a stunning cosmic web that's rewriting what we know about …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 Just Discovered: The Most Distant Jellyfish Galaxy Ever Seen — Plus What 2 Days of Oatmeal Does to Your Cholesterol
Episode 279
Astronomers have spotted the most distant jellyfish galaxy ever observed, pushing back our understanding of early cosmic conditions by billions of ye…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 Webb Just Rewrote Uranus, A Black Hole Ate A Star & Your Brain's Clock Is Broken
Episode 278
The James Webb Space Telescope has produced the first-ever 3D map of Uranus's upper atmosphere — and what it found about the ice giant's auroras and …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 Ancient Writing Discovered 40,000 Years Ago, Bacteria That Eat Cancer & The Ocean Circulation Alert You Need to Hear Now
Episode 277
A new study reveals how Antarctic meltwater dramatically disrupted the global ocean conveyor belt during past ice ages — and what that means for toda…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 Your Muscles Are Fighting Alzheimer's, Fish May Be Self-Aware & Ancient Galaxies Are Rewriting the Big Bang
Episode 276
Scientists have discovered that muscle tissue may send protective signals to the brain during exercise, opening a radical new front in Alzheimer's re…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 A Record Surgery, A Cosmic Clock Near a Black Hole & Cancer's Hidden Escape Route
Episode 275
An 11-year-old just survived a once-unthinkable 16-hour surgery at Children's Hospital Colorado — the first of its kind at the hospital. Scientists h…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
🔬 A 100-Million-Year-Old Black Hole Just Woke Up — And That's Only the Start
Episode 274
Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a dormant black hole roaring back to life, shooting jets of energy nearly a million light-…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
🔬 The Origin of Complex Life Just Got Rewritten — And That's Not Even the Biggest Story
Episode 273
Two bombshell discoveries are forcing scientists to rethink how complex life on Earth first emerged, from oxygen-loving ancient microbes to a bizarre…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
🔬 A Supermassive Black Hole Is Silencing the Universe — Plus Alzheimer's Predictions, Real Hobbits, & A Fasting Myth Busted
Episode 272
Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope just discovered that supermassive black holes may be suppressing star formation across intergalactic …
4 months, 3 weeks ago