Why does time race when you’re having fun… yet crawl during a boring meeting?
If humans truly have no sensory organ for time, why does time feel so vivid — sometimes painfully slow, sometimes gone in a blink?

In this episode, we dive into a surprising idea from modern neuroscience: time is not sensed — it is constructed. Your brain doesn’t read time from the outside world. Instead, it builds the feeling of time from rhythms inside your own body.

You’ll discover how heartbeats, breathing, neural oscillations, and memory work together to create your personal timeline. We’ll explore why attention, emotion, and bodily states can stretch or compress time — and why your past often feels strangely condensed compared to the present.

Time, it turns out, is not a ticking clock.
It’s a living rhythm, woven from brain activity, body signals, and memory.

🔬 Source paper:
Time, space, memory and brain–body rhythms
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Volume 27, pages 61–78 (2026)

#TimePerception #Neuroscience #BrainBody #TheIllusionOfTime #SciencePodcast #Memory #RhythmsOfLife ⏱️🧬

Why do some people thrive on boats and VR headsets while others turn green in seconds? 🤢
In this episode, we break down the surprising neuroscience behind motion sickness—a glitch in your brain’s prediction system, not your stomach. From genetic variants and hormonal cycles to the rise of VR-induced “cybersickness,” we explore the cutting-edge research rewriting what we know about this ancient biological response.

We also dive into how scientists used galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) to manually induce motion sickness—proving the sensory-conflict theory once and for all. And yes, we answer the big question: What actually works to fix it? #MotionSickness #Neuroscience #VR #Cybersickness #Genetics #SciencePodcast #TechAndBody #BrainGlitch 🧠⚡

For a century, nitrogen’s N≡N triple bond resisted every attempt at taming. Now, chemists have beaten the odds by forming hexanitrogen (N₆), a room-temperature–stable nitrogen allotrope with explosive potential far beyond TNT. We dig into the science behind the breakthrough and the futuristic nitrogen structures now on the horizon.
📄 Source paper: Preparation of a neutral nitrogen allotrope hexanitrogen C₂h-N₆. Nature 642, 356–360 (2025)
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#MoleculeOfTheYear #N6 #MaterialsScience #Explosives #ChemicalEngineering

Think you know how to wash produce? Think again. In this episode, we break down the wild, messy truth behind waxy apples, suspicious lettuces, and those “miracle” fruit washes that do absolutely nothing except drain your wallet. From the FDA’s shockingly simple advice (“Just use water, folks!”) to the surprising power of baking soda, we reveal what actually works—according to real science, not your aunt’s Facebook post.
#FoodScience #KitchenDrama #CleanEating

🧊➡️💧 We grow up thinking melting is simple: solid turns into liquid, end of story. But at the atomic scale, reality gets far stranger. Scientists have now captured a hidden intermediate phase—the hexatic phase—inside a two-dimensional layer of silver iodide. It’s a bizarre state that flows like a liquid but still carries the memory of its crystal structure.

Using a graphene “Petri dish,” researchers finally visualized this elusive phase in a covalently bonded 2D crystal—something long believed too difficult to observe. Even more surprising: this 2D material melted at temperatures nearly double its 3D counterpart, reaching ~1200°C! 🔥

Join us as we unpack how real-world melting breaks the rules of classical physics and reveal a new view of one of nature’s most familiar processes.

📄 Source paper: Hexatic phase in covalent two-dimensional silver iodide. Science 2025, Vol 390, Issue 6777, pp. 1033–1037

#️⃣ #PhysicsPodcast #2Dmaterials #MeltingMystery #HexaticPhase #ScienceBreakthrough #GrapheneMagic #AtomicWorld #PodcastScience

You hear from 20–20,000 Hz… or so you think. 👂✨
But why those numbers? And what incredible worlds do we miss because of it?
In this episode, we explore how the human ear evolved into a finely tuned—but shockingly narrow—sensor. From an ear canal that amplifies only infant-cry frequencies to a brain that filters out everything irrelevant to our survival, human hearing is not a universal microphone—it’s a biological spotlight. 🔦
Discover how much of reality your ears ignore… and what animals hear that we can’t even imagine.
#HumanHearing #BioDesign #SciencePodcast #HiddenFrequencies #MindBlown 🤯🔊

For decades, the dream of real holographic-style displays—3D visuals you can see from anywhere, without wearing goofy glasses—kept crashing into a brutal law of optics: the space–bandwidth product (SBP). This fundamental limit forced scientists to choose: big screen OR wide viewing angle. Never both.
But a 2025 Nature breakthrough changes everything. In this episode, we unpack EyeReal, an AI-powered system that stops trying to fight physics… and instead works with it. By focusing light only where the viewer’s eyes actually are, EyeReal achieves ultrawide, over-100° viewing angles using simple consumer-grade LCD stacks—no exotic holographic hardware needed.
We explore how this approach may also fix the dreaded 3D headache by delivering true focal cues and reducing the vergence–accommodation conflict.
Is this the moment when holographic displays finally become a mainstream reality?

#AIRevolution #3DDisplay #HolographicFuture #DeepLearning #NaturePaper #EyeReal #TechPodcast #DisplayTechnology #SBPLimit #PhysicsAndAI #Innovation2025 #NoMore3DGlasses

Source: Glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide viewing range using deep learning. Nature volume 648, pages 76–83 (2025).

Awarded at $3 million USD, the 2025 VinFuture Grand Prize honors the groundbreaking HPV vaccine discoveries of Dr. Douglas R. Lowy, Dr. John T. Schiller, Dr. Aimée R. Kreimer, and Prof. Maura L. Gillison—pioneers whose work reshaped global cancer prevention. In this episode, we explore the stunning scientific twists behind their achievements: the accidental discovery that a single vaccine dose provides long-term protection, the rise of HPV-driven head and neck cancers (identified by Prof. Gillison), and the paradoxical finding that HPV-positive tumors respond better to treatment. A prize of global significance—and a story that could save tens of millions of lives.
#VinFuture2025 #HPV #GrandPrizeInnovation #CancerPrevention #VaccinesWork

Ghosts aren’t just spooky—they’re human. This episode uncovers how the brain clings to loved ones after death, generating comforting illusions much like phantom limbs. Discover how our neural architecture blends emotion, memory, and survival instincts to form some of our most powerful—and meaningful—experiences. Does science explain them… or deepen the mystery?
#AfterDeathCommunication #Neuropsychology #LoveAndLoss #GhostExperiences #MentalModels #ScienceOfEmotion

What if the world’s purest colors came from a material that shouldn’t light up at all? 🤯 Scientists have finally cracked a decades-old paradox: making electrically insulating lanthanide nanocrystals glow with brilliant, tunable colors. From molecular “jackets” that harvest excitons to near-perfect energy funnels, this episode breaks down how researchers pulled off the impossible—and why your next device could shine with never-before-seen purity.
📄 Source: Electro-generated excitons for tunable lanthanide electroluminescence. Nature 647, 632–638 (2025).
#Nanotech #DisplayTech #Lanthanides #SciencePodcast #Innovation #Optoelectronics ✨

We often assume confidence is a simple trait — something you either have or don’t. But the science tells a very different story. In this episode, we uncover the surprising, multi-layered reasons why confidence feels effortless for some people and out of reach for others.

From debunking the testosterone myth to breaking down the Dunning–Kruger effect, we explore why the least skilled are often the most self-assured, and why experts quietly doubt themselves. We dive into the gender confidence gap, how childhood attachments shape your adult self-belief, and the mindset shifts proven to rebuild confidence from the inside out.

If you’ve ever wondered why you’re harder on yourself than everyone around you — or how to finally build confidence that lasts — this episode reveals the science behind your self-belief, and the practical steps you can take to strengthen it.

#ConfidenceScience #SelfBelief #PsychologyPodcast #GrowthMindset #DunningKrugerEffect #MentalStrength #PersonalGrowth #MindsetMatters #ConfidenceGap #HumanBehavior #ScienceExplainsEverything

For years, “smart clothing” meant bulky sensors sewn into awkward jackets—more gadget than garment. But a new class of magnetorheological (MR) fibers is set to change everything. These ultra-thin, melt-spun, shape-shifting fibers can bend, twist, stiffen, and even perform directional movements when triggered by a magnetic field.
In this episode, we break down the five most surprising insights behind this breakthrough: from fibers that change stiffness 30-fold, to fabrics that can grip a live worm, to gloves that deliver realistic tactile sensations without a single motor.
This is your deep dive into the materials science powering the next revolution in wearables—clothes that don’t just sense the world, but actively interact with it.

Pink: soft, sweet… and scientifically impossible?
In this episode, we uncover four shocking truths about the color pink—why it doesn’t exist in the light spectrum, why it used to be for boys, why kids learn to like or avoid it, and why most cultures don’t gender this color at all.
This is the story of how our brains create reality—and how culture rewrites it.

#ColorScience #Neuroscience #MindBlown #HiddenHistory #PsychologyPodcast #GenderAndCulture #PinkParadox #ScienceOfColor

From tying shoelaces to delicate surgery, we constantly judge force—but what if a simple knot could do it for us? Researchers have invented “sliputures,” surgical sutures with pre-programmed slipknots that deliver the perfect force every time. No electronics, no sensors—just pure mechanical intelligence. Novice surgeons can achieve expert precision, robots can get force feedback without new hardware, and patients heal faster with fewer complications. Discover how an ancient knot could revolutionize surgery and inspire a new era of mechano-intelligence.

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#MechanoIntelligence #SurgeryInnovation #SlipknotScience #MedicalTech #Robotics #SurgicalRobots #Sliputures #HealingFaster #Bioengineering

We’ve spent decades searching for life that looks like us—water-based, carbon-built, and bound to the same chemistry found on Earth. But the universe may operate on far stranger rules. In this episode, we explore the mind-bending possibilities of silicon organisms in acid clouds, hydrogen-breathing microbes in methane seas, and the surprising technosignatures that might reveal civilizations unlike anything we can imagine.
If life exists out there, it may not just be different… it may be unrecognizable.

#AlienLife #Astrobiology #SciencePodcast #Extraterrestrial #BeyondCarbon #SiliconLife #MethaneLife #SETI #SpaceMysteries #Cosmos #SpaceExploration #Technosignatures

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We trust people based on instinct — but science says that instinct is often wrong. 🤯
This episode uncovers the biological triggers that make us trust the wrong people, from oxytocin and facial cues to the brain’s hidden shortcuts for judging trustworthiness.

👉 After this episode, you’ll never see your relationships the same way again.

#️⃣ #PsychologyPodcast #HumanBehavior #TrustScience #SocialBias #BrainFacts #NeuroscienceExplained #BehavioralScience #TrustIssues #SciencePodcast #MindBlown

In this episode, we explore how researchers built artificial muscles powered entirely by ultrasound-driven microbubbles. These soft actuators bend, twist, and grip with incredible precision, enabling robotic skins, swallowable robots, and ultragentle biological manipulation.

Source: Ultrasound-driven programmable artificial muscles. Nature 646, 1096–1104 (2025).

We apply lipstick, foundation, and mascara every day—yet rarely question what they’re made of. Emerging scientific research reveals that many popular beauty products contain lead, mercury, cadmium, and other heavy metals that can slowly accumulate in the body over time.

In this episode, we uncover how heavy metals enter cosmetic formulations, the pathways through which they infiltrate the body—from our lips to our skin to the air we breathe—and why children are especially at risk. This is a deep scientific exploration of the hidden dangers within everyday beauty routines and a call for greater awareness in the choices we make.

#ToxicBeauty #HeavyMetalsInCosmetics #BeautySafety #ConsumerHealth #CosmeticScience #HiddenChemicals #HealthRisks #SciencePodcast #CleanBeauty #PublicHealthAwareness

For decades, faster transistors powered our technological world. But today, the biggest threat to computing isn’t the transistor—it’s the microscopic copper wires connecting them. In this episode, we explore the rise of RC delay, the collapse of copper at nanoscale, and the radical innovations—3D stacking, backside power delivery, and topological semimetals—that could save the future of computing.

Source:
“Addressing interconnect challenges for enhanced computing performance.” Science, 2024, Vol 386, Issue 6727.

Discover how biology, hormones, and early experiences shape our capacity for aggression — and empathy. From toddlers’ tantrums to genetic myths to the dark side of oxytocin, this episode reveals five surprising truths about what really fuels violence — and what gives us the power to stop it.

👉 Listen if you want to understand not just the science of violence, but the hope that lies beneath it.

#Podcast #ScienceOfViolence #HumanNature #EmpathyMatters #Neuroscience #MindAndSociety