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Anglais
États-Unis
33 épisodes
depuis 13 mars 2025
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While heat typically turns solids into liquids and gases, extreme planetary pressures can force water to freeze into a rigid, highly ordered crystal even at temperatures hotter than a blast furnace. In this episode, we explore the discovery of superionic ice—a bizarre state of water where heavy ox…

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While the vast majority of our atmosphere is made of nitrogen and oxygen—gases that are completely transparent to Earth's outgoing infrared heat—a tiny fraction of trace gases manages to regulate the planet's temperature, presenting a central conundrum of climate science. In this episode, we explo…
Before a planetary system takes shape with rocky worlds and gas giants, it begins as a cold, turbulent cloud of gas and dust where complex chemistry lays the structural foundation for future worlds. In this episode, we explore the molecular origins of planetary systems, tracing how microscopic dus…
A century and a half after Dmitri Mendeleev organized the building blocks of matter, the absolute weight of our world remains in a fascinating state of constant flux. In this episode, we investigate the hidden instability within the periodic table’s foundational atomic masses. We travel back to t…
For centuries, courts across Europe and British America prosecuted nearly 100,000 individuals for witchcraft, but modern toxicology and neuroscience reveal that what communities called "black magic" was often a potent mix of plant chemistry, psychological suggestion, and real-world experi…
Most people don’t expect anything special when they open a pint of ice cream, but to a physical chemist, the soft, sweet dessert is one of the most carefully engineered foods we eat. In this episode, we look at the complex physical chemistry behind the perfect scoop. The long-running ice cream te…
For centuries, chemistry has relied on heat, pressure, or catalysts to drive reactions, hoping that molecules would blindly collide with enough energy to form new bonds, but a new era of quantum control is turning chemistry into a programmable science. In this episode, we step inside a different k…
In this episode, we step inside "The Alchemy of Catastrophe" to unravel one of astrophysics' greatest detective stories: the origin of the heaviest elements on the periodic table. For decades, the stellar math behind the universe's slow-burning nuclear engines could not account for the g…
We are told that life is a simple, unidirectional journey, a steep climb up to a glorious summit in our twenties followed by a long, depressing slide down the other side, but modern biology proves this old map is an absolute joke. In this episode, we dismantle the bleak evolutionary myths surround…
There is a crisis brewing in biochemistry that has nothing to do with viruses or AI, but rather with a fundamental property of matter called chirality, or "handedness." Just as your left and right hands are mirror reflections that can never be perfectly superimposed, the molecules of life…
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