About this podcast
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.
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Episodes
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- Dead Star With Two Rings: Our Sun's Future | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 21Discover how astronomers found the first double debris disc around a white dwarf, WD J1328-1450, 1,600 light-years away — two rings of shattered planetary material where every…
- One in Ten Billion: CERN Finds Evidence of the Rarest Particle Decay | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 20Discover 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…
- The Giant Crane That Never Went Extinct | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 19Discover 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…
- Dinosaur Blood Found After 115 Million Years | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 18Discover 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…
- Hubble Needs a Boost to Stay in Orbit | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 17Discover 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…
- 378 Days on Fake Mars: NASA's CHAPEA Crew Walks Out | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 16Discover 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 —…
- Hera Sees Two Asteroids: One Dot Becomes Two | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 15Discover 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…
- Comets Probably Didn't Seed Life on Earth | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 14Discover 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…
- Cold's Hidden Lifespan Switch: The BH2 Pathway | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 13Discover 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…
- Gut Toxin's Hidden Door Found: Claudin-4 and Colon Cancer | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 12Discover how Johns Hopkins scientists found claudin-4, the docking protein a gut bacterium's toxin needs before it can damage the colon lining. Learn how Bacteroides fragilis…
- New Dwarf Planet Beyond Pluto: Rubin Finds 2026 ED138 | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 11Discover how the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile found 2026 ED138, a large icy body beyond Pluto. Learn why its estimated size of 600 to 1,500 kilometres makes it a dwarf…
- Lab-Grown Ancient Microbes: Our Oldest Relatives Found | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 10Discover how JAMSTEC scientists grew two strains of Heimdallarchaeia in the lab for the first time. Learn why these archaea are the closest known relatives of eukaryotes, why…
- Rooibos Seeds Go to Space: 17,346 Seeds Head to the ISS | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 9Discover how 17,346 rooibos seeds from South Africa are heading to the International Space Station. Learn why the seeds travel first to Voyager Technologies in Texas, how a…
- A Third Kind of Magnetism: Altermagnetism Confirmed | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 8Discover how a SLAC-led team confirmed altermagnetism, a third magnetic phase, in manganese telluride (MnTe). Learn how ferromagnets align spins in one direction…
- A Rock from Mars: Teghaza 001's 13 Possible Homes | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 7Discover how NASA's October 29 map narrows the ancient Martian meteorite Teghaza 001 to 13 possible origin sites in Mars' southern highlands. Learn how the rock, found in Mali's…
- The Horns of Venus: A Crescent Beyond 180 Degrees | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 6Discover how NASA's October 29 Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Venus as a thin glowing crescent, not the Moon. Learn why Venus, seen almost directly between Earth and the Sun…
- Australia's Spider Crater: A Giant Spider Seen from Space | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 5Discover how NASA's Landsat 9 image of Australia's Spider Crater reveals a giant spider-like shape in the Kimberley region. Learn why the 13 by 11 kilometre oval, with a 4…
- The Hunter's Moon: October's Full Moon Rises Tonight | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 4Discover how the Hunter's Moon lights up the October sky tonight, why it rises at nearly the same time for several nights, and what Saturn nearby adds to the view. Learn the…
- Nobel Prize 2026: Ghost Particles from Space Caught in Antarctic Ice — IceCube Explained | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 3Discover how Francis Halzen and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics by catching high-energy neutrinos from deep space in Antarctic ice. These…
- Nobel Prize 2026: Controlling Brain Cells with Light — Optogenetics Explained | Science Made Simple · 1 min · Season 8 Episode 2Discover how optogenetics won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel discovered how to switch nerve cells on and off with…
