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Origins of Life | Anna Wang on Artificial Cells and Nano-Robots

Origins of Life | Anna Wang on Artificial Cells and Nano-Robots

Episode 11 · · 01:15:59

Origins of life researcher Anna Wang takes us on a fascinating journey through the latest theories about how life began, revealing why Darwin's "warm little ponds" are making a comeb...

The Future of Fusion | Dennis Whyte on Nuclear Fusion and MIT Plasma Science

The Future of Fusion | Dennis Whyte on Nuclear Fusion and MIT Plasma Science

Episode 10 · · 02:51:01

MIT Professor Dennis Whyte's path to becoming a fusion energy pioneer began with an unlikely source - a Ripley's Believe It or Not comic strip he read as a teenager in rural Saskatch...

Origins of Life | Jack Szostak on Basement Experiments to Nobel Prize-Winning Discoveries

Origins of Life | Jack Szostak on Basement Experiments to Nobel Prize-Winning Discoveries

Episode 9 · · 01:26:07

Nobel laureate Jack Szostak takes us on a fascinating journey through his remarkable scientific career, from conducting dangerous chemistry experiments in his basement as a curious c...

The God Particle | Christoph Paus on Higgs Boson, CERN, and CMS

The God Particle | Christoph Paus on Higgs Boson, CERN, and CMS

Episode 8 · · 01:42:29

Professor Christoph Paus, a key figure in the discovery of the Higgs Boson at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, discusses his journey in high-energy physics, the challenges of leading la...

Cold Atoms: Mikhail Lukin on Quantum Optics and Neutral Atom Computing

Cold Atoms: Mikhail Lukin on Quantum Optics and Neutral Atom Computing

Episode 7 · · 50:30

In this episode, Harvard Professor Mikhail Lukin discusses his pioneering work in quantum computing using neutral atoms. He shares the journey from his early work in quantum optics a...

Einstein Was Wrong: John Clauser on Bell's Theorem and the Nature of Reality

Einstein Was Wrong: John Clauser on Bell's Theorem and the Nature of Reality

Episode 6 · · 02:09:52

In this episode, we sit down with Nobel laureate John Clauser to discuss his experiments from the early 1960’s, testing Bell's inequalities and quantum entanglement. Clauser shares t...

The Science of Drug Discovery: Insights from Artem Evdokimov

The Science of Drug Discovery: Insights from Artem Evdokimov

Episode 5 · · 02:50:28

In this episode, drug discovery scientist Artem Evdokimov discusses the science of pharmaceutical development, from historical breakthroughs to the current landscape. He shares insig...

Optical Metatronics: Nader Engheta on Electromagnetics and Scientific Curiosity

Optical Metatronics: Nader Engheta on Electromagnetics and Scientific Curiosity

Episode 4 · · 01:54:48

In this episode of the 632nm podcast, Nader Engheta shares his journey and experiences within the field of electromagnetics, from his early days at the University of Tehran and Calte...

Quantum Computing: Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac on the Quantum Revolution

Quantum Computing: Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac on the Quantum Revolution

Episode 3 · · 01:16:30

In this episode of the 632-nanometer podcast, we explore the evolution of quantum computing with theoretical physicists and experimentalists Peter Zoller and Ignacio Cirac, two pione...

Gravitational Waves: Rainer Weiss (Nobel Prize 2017) on Laser Interferometer Observation

Gravitational Waves: Rainer Weiss (Nobel Prize 2017) on Laser Interferometer Observation

Episode 2 · · 01:21:56

In 1916, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, however, it took almost a century for researchers to detect them. In this episode of the 632-nanometer podcast, the ...

Synthetic Biology: George Church on Genome Sequencing and De-Extinction

Synthetic Biology: George Church on Genome Sequencing and De-Extinction

Episode 1 · · 01:10:39

The great George Church takes us through the revolutionary journey of DNA sequencing from his early groundbreaking work to the latest advancements. He discusses the evolution of sequ...