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  • EP39 - The Search-and-Replace of Life: Decoding the CRISPR Revolution

    EP39 - The Search-and-Replace of Life: Decoding the CRISPR Revolution
    2025/12/07
    We talk about curing genetic diseases as if it's magic, a futuristic dream of rewriting our own DNA. But this "magic" is real, it's called CRISPR, and it wasn't invented in a high-tech lab—it was discovered in a bacterium. How can you possibly edit a three-billion-letter code inside a living cell? And how did a microbe's immune system give us the most powerful tool in the history of biology?
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    24 分
  • EP38 - The Body of the Machine: How Robots Find Their Feet

    EP38 - The Body of the Machine: How Robots Find Their Feet
    2025/12/04
    We see robots move with a grace and precision that feels almost alive, from a mechanical arm assembling a smartphone to a four-legged machine navigating a rocky trail. We assume a super-intelligent brain is simply telling the body what to do. But how does a purely digital command—a set of ones and zeroes—actually cross the chasm into smooth, physical, real-world motion?
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    35 分
  • EP37 - The Digital Chisel: How Light Sculpts Microchips from Sand

    EP37 - The Digital Chisel: How Light Sculpts Microchips from Sand
    2025/12/01
    We hold a supercomputer in our hands, a seamless piece of glass and metal. But how do we manufacture its brain—a microchip with billions of parts a thousand times thinner than a hair? This episode deconstructs the most precise manufacturing process in human history, revealing how we use stencils, acid, and a mind-bending trick with the physics of light to turn common sand into thinking matter.
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    28 分
  • EP36 - The Internet's Phonebook: Decoding the Invisible Magic of DNS

    EP36 - The Internet's Phonebook: Decoding the Invisible Magic of DNS
    2025/11/28
    You type a name like google.com into your browser, and a world of information appears instantly. We treat it like magic, a simple act of summoning. But behind that simple name is a frantic, globe-spanning chase for a secret number, orchestrated by an invisible system we all use every second of every day. This is the story of the internet’s phonebook: the Domain Name System, or DNS.
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    29 分
  • EP35 - The Unseen River: Unpacking the Chemical Magic of the Battery

    EP35 - The Unseen River: Unpacking the Chemical Magic of the Battery
    2025/11/25
    You plug in your phone every night, filling it with power for the next day. We think of a battery as a tiny tank for electricity, but the truth is far more elegant and strange. What if it isn't a container at all, but a paused chemical river, waiting for you to open the dam?
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    24 分
  • EP34 - The Conductor of Chaos: Unmasking the Operating System

    EP34 - The Conductor of Chaos: Unmasking the Operating System
    2025/11/22
    We click, type, and swipe, watching dozens of apps run in perfect harmony on our screens. We assume the computer is just powerful enough to handle it all, but the truth is far more chaotic and clever. This episode opens the black box of the Operating System to reveal the invisible conductor turning digital anarchy into the seamless experience we take for granted.
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    25 分
  • EP33 - Micro LLMs: Putting a Supercomputer in Your Pocket

    EP33 - Micro LLMs: Putting a Supercomputer in Your Pocket
    2025/11/19
    AI assistants feel like they're connected to a giant brain in the cloud, but increasingly, they live right inside your phone, working instantly and offline. How is it possible to shrink a supercomputer's worth of intelligence onto a tiny chip? This is the story of Micro LLMs, and how the future of AI might not be in the cloud, but in the palm of your hand.
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    32 分
  • EP32 - The Rise of Humanoid Robots: AI Gets a Body

    EP32 - The Rise of Humanoid Robots: AI Gets a Body
    2025/11/16
    We see viral videos of humanoid robots that walk, run, and work with an eerie, lifelike grace that feels like science fiction. But beyond the complex code and powerful motors, what fundamental truth allows a two-hundred-pound machine to master the simple, impossible art of not falling over? This episode deconstructs the humanoid robot to reveal why the key to its future lies not in its own design, but in ours.
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    32 分