AI Breaks a 90-Year Math Problem, Life’s Alphabet in Space, and Science Funding (EP 50)
Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode moves from astrobiology to science policy to the rapidly changing frontier of artificial intelligence and mathematics. First, researchers analyzing pristine samples returned from asteroid Ryugu report all five canonical nucleobases used by DNA and RNA. We…
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