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by Rehan Ahmed
Science Made Simple is a science podcast that explains big ideas in plain English — science explained simply for students, curious minds, and science lovers.Explore astronomy and space — NASA, Artemis, the James Webb Telescope, black holes, exoplanets and the search for alien life — plus brain science and neuroscience, physics, biology, climate, and artificial intelligence, one clear topic at a time.New episodes daily — three fresh episodes every day. Every episode takes one complex question, removes the jargon, and answers it in about a minute.Hit follow and feed your brain, the simple way.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
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- 3 days ago1 min
One in Ten Billion: CERN Finds Evidence of the Rarest Particle Decay | Science Made Simple
Discover how CERN's LHCb experiment announced on 3 November 2026 the first evidence from a single experiment for a Bd meson decaying into two muons, a process the Standard Model predicts only once in ten billion beauty particles. Learn why this 42-year search matters, why 3.2 sigma counts as evidence but not yet a discovery, and how the upgraded LHCb detector combined 2024-2025 data with 2011-2018 data to catch this golden channel for new physics.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 4 days ago1 min
The Giant Crane That Never Went Extinct | Science Made Simple
Discover how ancient DNA solved a 150-year-old mystery: the supposed extinct giant crane Grus primigenia, named in the 19th century from large bones found in caves in southern France, was actually the common crane Grus grus. Learn how Bournemouth University researchers, with the Centre for Palaeogenetics in Stockholm, tested ancient DNA from 18 crane bones found in England, Wales, France, Germany and the Balearic Islands, published in Royal Society Open Science, and why bigger males and smaller females caused the mix-up — and why cranes shrinking over time is now the next question.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 4 days ago1 min
Dinosaur Blood Found After 115 Million Years | Science Made Simple
Discover how scientists found mineralized red blood cells and heme molecules in a 115-million-year-old Aratasaurus dinosaur bone from Brazil, published in PNAS on 2 November 2026. Learn why the hausmannite mineral acted like a natural time capsule, and why this is not living blood or dinosaur DNA.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 4 days ago1 min
Hubble Needs a Boost to Stay in Orbit | Science Made Simple
Discover how NASA is asking private companies to help raise the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher orbit and extend its working life. Learn why atmospheric drag is slowly lowering Hubble's altitude, why the telescope cannot boost itself, what the 29 October request for information covers, and why any rescue mission would need to happen by 2032 before a possible re-entry in 2033 or 2034.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 5 days ago1 min
378 Days on Fake Mars: NASA's CHAPEA Crew Walks Out | Science Made Simple
Discover how four NASA volunteers spent 378 days inside the 3D-printed Mars Dune Alpha habitat in Houston, from 19 October 2025 to 31 October 2026. Learn what they did inside — growing crops, practising simulated spacewalks and living with Mars-like communication delays — why this second CHAPEA mission matters for future Moon and Mars missions, and what two weeks of post-mission evaluations will reveal.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 5 days ago1 min
Hera Sees Two Asteroids: One Dot Becomes Two | Science Made Simple
Discover how ESA's Hera spacecraft saw the Didymos and Dimorphos asteroids as two separate objects for the first time. Learn why the pair previously looked like a single dot, how the 18 October image from about 1,280 km revealed tiny Dimorphos, and how NASA's 2022 DART impact shortened Dimorphos's orbit by about 33 minutes — and why Hera's close-up study matters for planetary defence.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 5 days ago1 min
Comets Probably Didn't Seed Life on Earth | Science Made Simple
Discover how University of Cambridge scientists tested whether comets could have delivered life's building blocks to early Earth. Learn why small comets break up in the atmosphere, why fast, steep impacts destroy most hydrogen cyanide (HCN), why successful delivery averaged zero in their models, and why Mars looks slightly more promising — while stressing this does not definitively rule comets out. Keywords: comets, origin of life, hydrogen cyanide, HCN, Cambridge, Scientific Reports, Mars, prebiotic, impacts, astrobiologyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
- 6 days ago1 min
Cold's Hidden Lifespan Switch: The BH2 Pathway | Science Made Simple
Discover how moderately cold temperatures switch on a hidden BH2 metabolic pathway in roundworms, extending lifespan by about 15 percent. Learn how the CAT-4 enzyme in muscle makes BH2, how it travels to the gut and nerves, converts to BH4 and helps make tyrosine, and why this worm and lab-cell finding is not yet a human treatment.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
About Science Made Simple
Science Made Simple is a science podcast that explains big ideas in plain English — science explained simply for students, curious minds, and science lovers.Explore astronomy and space — NASA, Artemis, the James Webb Telescope, black holes, exoplanets and the search for alien life — plus brain science and neuroscience, physics, biology, climate, and artificial intelligence, one clear topic at a time.New episodes daily — three fresh episodes every day. Every episode takes one complex question, removes the jargon, and answers it in about a minute.Hit follow and feed your brain, the simple way.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/science-made-simple--6610397/support.
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