AI Cancer Vaccines, Strange Fish, Ketamine, and Ancient Life (EP. 34)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a fast-moving science rundown covering four remarkable stories from across AI, genetics, neuroscience, and paleontology. We dig into the st...
27 Maalis 44min
Can Human Neurons Really Play Doom? The Science Behind Wetware (EP. 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 neurons allegedly learning to play Doom. We go back to t...
24 Maalis 1h 13min
5,000-Year-Old Bacteria, Solar Storms, Dogs, and Meta’s AI War (EP. 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 didn’t have room to turn into full deep dives. This ...
20 Maalis 38min
Optovolution: Teaching Proteins to Think Like Computers (EP. 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 big idea is simple but powerful — traditional directe...
18 Maalis 55min
Can We Stop an Asteroid? The Physics Behind NASA’s DART Mission (EP. 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 was never to “blow up” an asteroid but to gently nud...
16 Maalis 54min
Astrobiology’s Biggest Survival Test + A Vaccine Against Everything? (EP. 29)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode starts in astrobiology with a fresh experimental challenge to one of the biggest objections to lithopanspermia: can life actually survive the ...
12 Maalis 2h 4min
Dark Galaxies, Fuzzy Dark Matter, and an Alzheimer’s Breakthrough (EP. 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 Cluster (a halo that’s ~99.9% dark matter), and a maj...
4 Maalis 1h 51min
Dream Engineering, the Proton Radius Puzzle, and an ALS Breakthrough (EP. 27)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode has three main stories: interactive dream engineering (yes, two-way “communication” during lucid dreaming), the proton radius puzzle finally g...
26 Helmi 2h 12min
