From First Principles

2026 Nobel Prize Predictions: Medicine, Physics & Chemistry (EP 60)

Oct 3, 2026

Golden Goose Awards 2026: The Science Behind the Winners (Part 1) (EP 59)

Sep 29, 2026

What OpenAI Actually Did to Navier-Stokes (EP 58)

Sep 24, 2026

What’s Next in Science? Nobel Prizes, Space Missions & More (EP 57)

Sep 14, 2026

The Yak Mutation That Could Help Repair the Brain (EP 56)

Sep 7, 2026

Why Spin Qubits Will Win the Quantum Race (Part 2) (EP 55)

Aug 31, 2026

How Quantum Computing Actually Works (Part 1) (EP 54)

Aug 20, 2026

What Claude Actually Did to the Riemann Hypothesis (EP 53)

Aug 14, 2026

The Amazon’s Hidden Civilization (One Year Anniversary) (EP 52)

Aug 6, 2026

The Tech Elon Has Been Waiting For (EP 51)

Jul 31, 2026

AI Breaks a 90-Year Math Problem, Life’s Alphabet in Space, and Science Funding (EP 50)

Jul 23, 2026

FIFA Data Scientists Explain Match Momentum (EP 49)

Jul 17, 2026

Black Hole Movies, Digital Heart Twins, and World Cup Tech (EP 48)

Jul 14, 2026

America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 2 (EP 47)

Jul 3, 2026

America 250: The Breakthroughs That Built American Science — Part 1 (EP 46)

Jul 2, 2026

The Physics of the World Cup: VAR, Smart Balls, and Soccer Aerodynamics (EP 45)

Jun 29, 2026

New Rules For Heredity (Non-Mendelian Inheritance of Epigenetics) (EP 44)

Jun 26, 2026

Dr. Michael Blanton on Open Data, Galaxy Surveys, and the Future of Astronomy (EP 43)

Jun 4, 2026

How Scientists Actually Study Dark Matter (EP 42)

May 21, 2026

Dr. John Mulchaey on Carnegie Science and the Future of Astronomy (EP 41)

May 13, 2026

Ant Scans, Lunar Chickpeas, Hidden Galaxies & Superconductivity (EP 40)

Apr 29, 2026

The Prometheus Constellation: Dramaturgical and Scientific Analysis of the Physicists in Oppenheimer (EP 39)

Apr 21, 2026

Harder Than Diamond? The New Hexagonal Diamond Breakthrough (EP 38)

Apr 15, 2026

Artemis II: Deep Dive on the Moon Flyby, Earthset, and Reentry (EP 37)

Apr 9, 2026

Artemis II, Claude Code Leak, iPhone Spyware & Project Hail Mary (EP 36)

Apr 3, 2026

Can AI Help Wake Coma Patients? The Science of Consciousness (EP 35)

Mar 31, 2026

AI Cancer Vaccines, Strange Fish, Ketamine, and Ancient Life (EP. 34)

Mar 27, 2026

Can Human Neurons Really Play Doom? The Science Behind Wetware (EP. 33)

Mar 24, 2026

5,000-Year-Old Bacteria, Solar Storms, Dogs, and Meta’s AI War (EP. 32)

Mar 20, 2026

Optovolution: Teaching Proteins to Think Like Computers (EP. 31)

Mar 18, 2026

Can We Stop an Asteroid? The Physics Behind NASA’s DART Mission (EP. 30)

Mar 16, 2026

Astrobiology’s Biggest Survival Test + A Vaccine Against Everything? (EP. 29)

Mar 12, 2026

Dark Galaxies, Fuzzy Dark Matter, and an Alzheimer’s Breakthrough (EP. 28)

Mar 4, 2026

Dream Engineering, the Proton Radius Puzzle, and an ALS Breakthrough (EP. 27)

Feb 26, 2026

Winter Olympics Deep Dive: Ice Physics, Performance Pressure, and Climate Change (EP. 26)

Feb 18, 2026

Plants, Quantum Sensors, and Predicting Cancer Evolution (EP. 25)

Feb 10, 2026

Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon (EP. 24)

Feb 4, 2026

JWST’s “Little Red Dots,” TimeVaults, and the Dawn of Math (EP. 23)

Jan 27, 2026

Cloud9 Dark Matter Halo, Jellyfish Sleep, and String Theory Hidden in Nature (EP. 22)

Jan 20, 2026

Roman Concrete, Brain “Cognitive Legos,” DeepSeek, and Econophysics (EP. 21)

Jan 12, 2026

The Physics Behind Fusion’s Biggest Problem (Season Finale) (EP. 20)

Dec 23, 2025

The Race to the Double Helix — Watson, Crick, Franklin & the Real Story of DNA (EP. 19)

Dec 4, 2025

3I/ATLAS Explained, Forensic Fingerprints & Alzheimer’s Breakthrough (EP. 18)

Nov 27, 2025

Hypersonic Physics, Deep Sea Life & Princeton’s Millisecond Qubits (EP. 17)

Nov 22, 2025