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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Mar 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 Feb 2h 12min
Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change (EP. 26)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a Winter Olympics deep dive from first principles—physics, neuroscience, and climate science in one ride.• Why ice is slippery: the “water ...
18 Feb 1h 50min
Plants, Quantum Sensors, and Predicting Cancer Evolution (EP. 25)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode jumps from plant biochemistry to quantum metrology to cancer evolution. We start with a University of York breakthrough that solves a ~50-year...
10 Feb 1h 49min
Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon (EP. 24)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is a full-spectrum moonshot: why Artemis II matters, how the mission actually works (SLS, Orion, translunar injection, free-return trajectorie...
4 Feb 1h 9min
