A common theme we’re starting to notice from all of our guests: You need to become a polymath!

Some friends from MIT (Mikhail Shalaginov Xinghui Yin) and I occasionally record long-form, technical podcast interviews with scientists. In principle, you would think there should be no room for yet another podcast, but when I searched for something like this I could only find

Junior vs Senior Fusion Scientists: Junior: Chases perfect physics Senior: Optimizes for economics Junior: Waits for funding Senior: Creates new paths forward Junior: Follows established methods Senior: Questions core assumptions

Fusion Evolution: Past: Build giant tokamaks Present: Scale high-field magnets Future: Deploy compact reactors The shift from size to field strength changes everything.

The real challenge in fusion might not be getting particles hot enough. DT fusion is already way better than alternatives. Stronger magnets mean smaller reactors that might actually work.

MIT is developing a revolutionary approach to testing fusion reactor materials, using proton beams to simulate and accelerate the damage that materials experience inside fusion reactors. This novel facility could compress years of material testing into days, helping solve one

. OHSU Casey Eye Director of Research, David Huang, found that the path to developing OCT started with experiments on cow eyes and cadavers, before his mentor became the first human volunteer. Despite grainy initial images, they knew they were seeing retinal layers in

David Huang, Director of Research OHSU Casey Eye, found that bringing OCT from lab to clinic happened remarkably fast - just 5 years to FDA approval. The technology became essential in the 2000s for monitoring treatments of macular degeneration, revolutionizing eye care.

From our recent episode with Yudong Cao, he suggests that the bottleneck in drug discovery isn't computational power - it's synthesizing and testing the molecules in the lab. Even with perfect quantum chemistry calculations, you can only physically test a tiny fraction of the

We sat down with Nobel Laureate and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Moungi Bawendi, where he shares the fascinating journey from medieval stained glass to "Quantum Dots": How an oxidized chemical bottle led to a Nobel-winning discovery, the birth of QLED TVs, and why curiosity-driven science

“The universe is a quantum computer and we're all just hacking it." Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s Seth Lloyd takes us on a mind-bending journey from quantum mechanics to consciousness. Join the 632nm team as we sit down for a conversation about physics, free will, and why quantum mechanics is

Instead of assuming free will requires quantum randomness, consider that it emerges from computational uncomputability - our decisions are deterministic but fundamentally unpredictable to ourselves.

On this week's episode of the 632nm Podcast: Eli Yablonovitch shares how Thomas Edison's approach of requiring "a thousand failed discoveries for every one that works" shaped his scientific philosophy. From solar cells to semiconductor lasers to photonic crystals to cell phone

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Dear John, I just listened to your wonderful interview on the 632nm podcast. At 1h15m you mention the question of prior entanglement of any two particles in our universe (e.g., due to previous interactions), and connect this to the question of cosmological inflation. I thought

Chris Monroe, founder of $IONQ: "fortunately, we are, i think, probably, many decades away from quantum computers being able to attack that [bitcoin via Shor's]" this is so unbelievable...

Check out our conversation with Prof. Brian Keating - full episode out now! We discuss Galileo’s influence, cosmic inflation, and how the Nobel Prize could be changed to better reflect the way we do science. Available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc. Timestamps: 00:00 -

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A clip from our recent interview with Prof. Brian Keating where we discuss dark matter’s connection to the CMB youtu.be/uKvdH3KXSAg?si…

An inside look into our upcoming episode with Rick Doblin, Ph.D., of MAPS , psychedelics expert and founder of MAPS. You're not gonna want to miss this!