Episodes

  • mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 2)

    mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 2)
    Sep 22 2026

    How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.

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    16 mins
  • mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 1)

    mRNA Vaccines — Building from a Message (Part 1)
    Aug 24 2026

    How we learned to send the body a message, and let it build its own medicine.
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    17 mins
  • X-Rays — Seeing Through the Human Body

    X-Rays — Seeing Through the Human Body
    Aug 10 2026

    How an accidental discovery became one of medicine's most important technologies.

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    21 mins
  • Ammonia — Turning Air into Fertilizer

    Ammonia — Turning Air into Fertilizer
    Jul 27 2026

    How a laboratory experiment became one of the world’s most important industrial processes.

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    16 mins
  • Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 2)

    Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 2)
    Jul 12 2026

    How we took an invisible wave and taught it to carry messages across the world.
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    17 mins
  • Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 1)

    Radio Waves — From Spark to WiFi (Part 1)
    Jun 29 2026

    A wave no one could see, predicted on paper, then created and caught in a laboratory.

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    18 mins
  • Reverse Osmosis — From Ocean to Tap

    Reverse Osmosis — From Ocean to Tap
    May 31 2026

    How a principle found in every living cell became the technology that supplies drinking water to entire nations.

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    16 mins
  • Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 2)

    Lithium- Making Energy Portable (Part 2)
    May 18 2026

    How a promising idea became a battery that changed the world.

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    14 mins