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24 minutes
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Amerika Syarikat
82 episod
sejak 16 Apr 2026
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In 1856, an eighteen-year-old chemistry student trying to synthesise quinine accidentally created the world's first synthetic dye — and accidentally poisoned an entire century. The story of William Perkin's mauve obsession is also the story of how a single flask of coal tar sludge gave rise to t ...

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In 1984, an Australian gastroenterologist named Barry Marshall drank a flask of bacteria to prove his colleagues wrong — and in doing so, dismantled a medical dogma so entrenched that it had condemned millions of people to decades of unnecessary suffering. This is the story of how stomach ulcers ...
In 1977, a team of geologists descended into the Pacific Ocean expecting barren rock and found something that rewrote the rules of life itself — entire ecosystems thriving without sunlight, built on chemistry instead of photosynthesis. This is the story of Cindy Van Dover, hydrothermal vents, an ...
In 1952, a psychologist built a machine that was never supposed to be intelligent — just a simple model of a neuron — and accidentally laid the first brick of artificial intelligence. But the real story isn't the invention: it's the sixty-year argument it started about whether a machine can ever ...
In 1965, a young astronomer named Vera Rubin pointed her telescope at the Andromeda galaxy expecting to confirm what everyone already knew — and instead discovered that roughly 85% of the universe is missing. It took decades for the scientific establishment to believe her, longer still to admit ...
In 1928, Alexander Fleming went on vacation and came back to a ruined experiment — and one of the most consequential accidents in human history. But the discovery of penicillin is only half the story: the other half is a decade of silence, a world war that forced the science forward, and the qui ...
In the 1970s, Vera Rubin did the math, checked it twice, and arrived at a conclusion so unsettling that the scientific establishment spent years looking for reasons she was wrong. She wasn't. This episode traces how one astronomer's meticulous observations of spinning galaxies cracked open a cri ...
In 1928, Alexander Fleming returned from vacation to find a contaminated petri dish he probably should have thrown away — and almost did. What followed wasn't a moment of genius so much as a decade of near-misses, ignored papers, and stubborn biology that the scientific community kept refusing t ...
In the 1920s, Henrietta Swan Leavitt was hired to measure stars — not study them. But buried inside her meticulous data was a mathematical relationship so powerful it would shatter humanity's understanding of the size of the cosmos and hand Edwin Hubble the ruler he needed to discover that the u ...
In 1928, Alexander Fleming came back from vacation to find a ruined petri dish — and almost threw it away. What stopped him, and what he saw in that contaminated culture, would eventually save an estimated 200 million lives, but the path from a cluttered London lab bench to a working antibiotic ...
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