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What Happens When AI Gets a Lab?
Season 2 Episode 65
What happens when AI moves beyond the chatbot and into the laboratory? From Claude-designed proteins that bind scorpion toxins to robots that assembl…
1 day, 3 hours ago
Nobel Prize 2026: The Science Gets Stranger
Season 1 Episode 64
Can light restore aspects of sight? Can recalling a cold experience change an animal's metabolism? And what can ghost particles and mirror-image mole…
6 days, 6 hours ago
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 Explained: Mirror Molecules (EP 63)
Season 1 Episode 63
Why does life favor one molecular mirror image? The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry honors Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for nonlinear effects and auto…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 Explained: IceCube & Neutrinos (EP 62)
Season 1 Episode 62
Why build a telescope inside a billion tons of Antarctic ice? The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes Francis Halzen's work on IceCube and the dis…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Nobel Prize in Medicine 2026 Explained: Optogenetics (EP 61)
Season 1 Episode 61
How do you prove what a brain cell actually does? The 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine celebrates a remarkable answer: give cells a light-sensitive prote…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
2026 Nobel Prize Predictions: Medicine, Physics & Chemistry (EP 60)
Season 1 Episode 60
Who could win the 2026 Nobel Prizes? From the science behind Ozempic to quantum interference and droplets inside living cells, Lester Nare and Krishn…
2 weeks, 5 days ago
Golden Goose Awards 2026: The Science Behind the Winners (Part 1) (EP 59)
Season 1 Episode 59
What connects a noise complaint, holiday lights seen from space, and the physics of a coffee stain? Three unexpected paths from basic research to dis…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
What OpenAI Actually Did to Navier-Stokes (EP 58)
Season 1 Episode 58
What does it mean to solve an equation that describes almost every fluid around us, from the air over a wing to the water swirling down a drain?
In Ep…
4 weeks ago
What’s Next in Science? Nobel Prizes, Space Missions & More (EP 57)
Season 1 Episode 57
What science should you be watching this fall? From Nobel Prize season to NASA’s Roman Space Telescope, Mars’ moons and Mercury, Lester Nare and Kris…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Yak Mutation That Could Help Repair the Brain (EP 56)
Season 1 Episode 56
What can a yak living thousands of meters above sea level teach us about repairing the human brain?
In Episode 56 of From First Principles, Lester Nar…
1 month, 2 weeks ago