Podcast Episodes
Back to Search🔬 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…
1 month, 3 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…
1 month, 3 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…
1 month, 3 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…
1 month, 3 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…
1 month, 3 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…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
🔬 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 …
1 month, 3 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…
1 month, 4 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…
1 month, 4 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…
2 months ago