From First Principles Podcast

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Breaking down science news so it makes sense to curious people everywhere. Hosted by Krishna Choudhary, PhD and Lester Nare. Support the show: Donate: FFPod.com/donate Follow us everywhere: • X (Twitter): @FFPod • Instagram: @FFPod • TikTok: @FFPod • Facebook: @FFPod Listen to the podcast: Find From First Principles on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts. Watch the full episodes + story clips: Subscribe here on YouTube for weekly episodes, individual story breakdowns, and deep dives. Business / collaborations: Email: [email protected] What to expect: • 3–4 new research stories per episode (plus a quick Rundown) • Occasional single-topic deep dives (foundational science + history) • Chapters and show notes in every description • A community that argues in good faith and stays curious

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The Prometheus Constellation: Dramaturgical and Scientific Analysis of the Physicists in Oppenheimer

The Prometheus Constellation: Dramaturgical and Scientific Analysis of the Physicists in Oppenheimer From First Principles Podcast

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Why Is NASA So Expensive? The 10 Most Expensive Missions Ever

Why Is NASA So Expensive? The 10 Most Expensive Missions Ever From First Principles Podcast

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

Harder Than Diamond? The New Hexagonal Diamond Breakthrough (EP 38) From First Principles Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

Can AI Help Wake Coma Patients? The Science of Consciousness (EP 35) From First Principles Podcast

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Warp Drive Aliens and Gravitational Waves #shorts

Warp Drive Aliens and Gravitational Waves #shorts From First Principles Podcast

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

AI Cancer Vaccines, Strange Fish, Ketamine, and Ancient Life (EP. 34) From First Principles Podcast

961 views - 4 weeks ago

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

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

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

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

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

Optovolution: Teaching Proteins to Think Like Computers (EP. 31) From First Principles Podcast

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Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? Play Along! #shorts

Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? Play Along! #shorts From First Principles Podcast

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Genes Before Life? Scientists Uncover Ancient Building Blocks #shorts

Genes Before Life? Scientists Uncover Ancient Building Blocks #shorts From First Principles Podcast

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

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

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

Plants, Quantum Sensors, and Predicting Cancer Evolution (FFP EP. 25) From First Principles Podcast

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

Artemis II, Apollo, and the Physics of Going Back to the Moon (FFP EP. 24) From First Principles Podcast

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

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

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

Cloud9 Dark Matter Halo, Jellyfish Sleep, and String Theory Hidden in Nature (FFP EP. 22) From First Principles Podcast

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

Roman Concrete, Brain “Cognitive Legos,” DeepSeek, and Econophysics (FFP EP. 21) From First Principles Podcast

3.7K views - 3 months ago

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

The Physics Behind Fusion’s Biggest Problem (Season Finale) (FFP EP. 20) From First Principles Podcast

4.2K views - 4 months ago

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

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

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

3I/ATLAS Explained, Forensic Fingerprints & Alzheimer’s Breakthrough (FFP EP. 18) From First Principles Podcast

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

Hypersonic Physics, Deep Sea Life & Princeton’s Millisecond Qubits (FFP EP. 17) From First Principles Podcast

2.6K views - 5 months ago

New Telescope Tech at UCLA Changes Space Forever (FFP Story | EP. 16)

New Telescope Tech at UCLA Changes Space Forever (FFP Story | EP. 16) From First Principles Podcast

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Civet Coffee: The Science of $80 “Biologically Processed” Beans (FFP Story | EP. 16)

Civet Coffee: The Science of $80 “Biologically Processed” Beans (FFP Story | EP. 16) From First Principles Podcast

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Orcas vs. Sharks: The Culture Wars of the Ocean (FFP Story | EP. 16)

Orcas vs. Sharks: The Culture Wars of the Ocean (FFP Story | EP. 16) From First Principles Podcast

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Hijacking Bacteria to Mass-Produce Octopus Camouflage (FFP Story | EP. 16)

Hijacking Bacteria to Mass-Produce Octopus Camouflage (FFP Story | EP. 16) From First Principles Podcast

192 views - 5 months ago

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Octopus Camouflage, Orcas vs. Sharks, Civet Coffee & Sub-Diffraction Telescope Tech (FFP EP. 16) From First Principles Podcast

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How a Wireless Retinal Implant Is Helping the Blind See Again (FFP Story | EP. 15)

How a Wireless Retinal Implant Is Helping the Blind See Again (FFP Story | EP. 15) From First Principles Podcast

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How AI Genomes Could Change Cancer Detection (FFP Story | EP. 15)

How AI Genomes Could Change Cancer Detection (FFP Story | EP. 15) From First Principles Podcast

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How Naked Mole Rats Might Hold the Secret to Aging (FFP Story | EP. 13)

How Naked Mole Rats Might Hold the Secret to Aging (FFP Story | EP. 13) From First Principles Podcast

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Portable Muon Beams — How Berkeley Scientists Shrunk a Particle Accelerator (FFP Story | EP. 13)

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The Woman Who Was Robbed Of The Nobel Prize

The Woman Who Was Robbed Of The Nobel Prize From First Principles Podcast

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Chen Ning Yang — The Man Who Unlocked Symmetry (FFP EP. 14)

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Pyramid's Secret: Muon Tomography Reveals Hidden Void! #shorts

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From Princeton to the Nobel Prizes — How FFP Started + 2025 Nobel Recap (FFP EP. 12)

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From Cells to Circuits to Crystals — 2025 Nobel Prizes Unpacked (FFP EP. 11)

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 Explained — Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) | FFP Nobel Week Day 3

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 Explained — Metal–Organic Frameworks (MOFs) | FFP Nobel Week Day 3 From First Principles Podcast

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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 Explained — Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling | FFP Nobel Week Day 2

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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2025 Explained — Peripheral Immune Tolerance | FFP Nobel Week Day 1

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FFP Bonus - Who Will Win the 2025 Nobels? (Medicine, Physics & Chemistry)

FFP Bonus - Who Will Win the 2025 Nobels? (Medicine, Physics & Chemistry) From First Principles Podcast

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How AI Is Making LIGO 10× More Sensitive to Black Holes (FFP Story | EP. 10)

How AI Is Making LIGO 10× More Sensitive to Black Holes (FFP Story | EP. 10) From First Principles Podcast

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CRISPR-GPT: How AI Is Rewriting the Future of Gene Editing (FFP Story | EP. 10)

CRISPR-GPT: How AI Is Rewriting the Future of Gene Editing (FFP Story | EP. 10) From First Principles Podcast

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Einstein's Challenge: How LIGO Made the Impossible Possible #shorts

Einstein's Challenge: How LIGO Made the Impossible Possible #shorts From First Principles Podcast

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AI Supercharges CRISPR & LIGO (Nobel Prize Week Preview) (FFP EP. 10)

AI Supercharges CRISPR & LIGO (Nobel Prize Week Preview) (FFP EP. 10) From First Principles Podcast

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Brightest Cosmic Radio Signal Ever Recorded (FFP Story | EP. 9)

Brightest Cosmic Radio Signal Ever Recorded (FFP Story | EP. 9) From First Principles Podcast

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How Hidden Viruses in Our DNA Could Unlock New Cancer Therapies (FFP Story | EP. 9)

How Hidden Viruses in Our DNA Could Unlock New Cancer Therapies (FFP Story | EP. 9) From First Principles Podcast

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Scientists Build a Time Crystal You Can Actually See (FFP Story | EP. 9)

Scientists Build a Time Crystal You Can Actually See (FFP Story | EP. 9) From First Principles Podcast

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The $294K AI Model That Shocked the World (FFP Story | EP. 9)

The $294K AI Model That Shocked the World (FFP Story | EP. 9) From First Principles Podcast

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China’s AI Breakthrough, Time Crystals, Hidden Viruses, & Brightest Cosmic Signal (FFP EP. 9)

China’s AI Breakthrough, Time Crystals, Hidden Viruses, & Brightest Cosmic Signal (FFP EP. 9) From First Principles Podcast

1.6K views - 7 months ago

JWST Detects Signs of Atmospheres on Earth-Sized Exoplanets (FFP Story | EP. 8)

JWST Detects Signs of Atmospheres on Earth-Sized Exoplanets (FFP Story | EP. 8) From First Principles Podcast

326 views - 7 months ago

This Exoplanet Made Headlines as the “Strongest Evidence Yet For Life” (FFP Story | EP. 8)

This Exoplanet Made Headlines as the “Strongest Evidence Yet For Life” (FFP Story | EP. 8) From First Principles Podcast

188 views - 7 months ago

NASA Finds Potential Biosignatures on Mars (FFP Story | EP. 8)

NASA Finds Potential Biosignatures on Mars (FFP Story | EP. 8) From First Principles Podcast

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