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AI Cancer Vaccines, Strange Fish, Ketamine, and Ancient Life (EP. 34)
Season 2 Episode 34
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a fast-moving science rundown covering four remarkable stories from across AI, genetics,…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Can Human Neurons Really Play Doom? The Science Behind Wetware (EP. 33)
Season 2 Episode 33
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a deep dive into one of the strangest science stories of the year: a dish of human neuro…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
5,000-Year-Old Bacteria, Solar Storms, Dogs, and Meta’s AI War (EP. 32)
Season 2 Episode 32
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this is our first standalone rundown episode — a faster, looser format where we hit several stories we d…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Optovolution: Teaching Proteins to Think Like Computers (EP. 31)
Season 2 Episode 31
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a deep dive into a new synthetic-biology breakthrough out of EPFL: OptoEvolution. The bi…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Can We Stop an Asteroid? The Physics Behind NASA’s DART Mission (EP. 30)
Season 2 Episode 30
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a full deep dive on planetary defense. We break down NASA’s DART mission, why the goal w…
7 months ago
Astrobiology’s Biggest Survival Test + A Vaccine Against Everything? (EP. 29)
Season 2 Episode 29
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode starts in astrobiology with a fresh experimental challenge to one of the biggest objections…
7 months ago
Dark Galaxies, Fuzzy Dark Matter, and an Alzheimer’s Breakthrough (EP. 28)
Season 2 Episode 28
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode has two main stories: an astrophysics update on a candidate “dark galaxy” in the Perseus Cl…
7 months, 1 week ago
Dream Engineering, the Proton Radius Puzzle, and an ALS Breakthrough (EP. 27)
Season 2 Episode 15
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode has three main stories: interactive dream engineering (yes, two-way “communication” during …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change (EP. 26)
Season 2 Episode 26
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a Winter Olympics deep dive from first principles—physics, neuroscience, and climate sci…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Plants, Quantum Sensors, and Predicting Cancer Evolution (EP. 25)
Season 2 Episode 25
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode jumps from plant biochemistry to quantum metrology to cancer evolution. We start with a Uni…
8 months, 1 week ago