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Earth’s 1-ms Day, Baby Solar Systems, Record Black Hole Crash, CRISPR Cancer Hack & AI Indiana Jones (EP. 1)

Earth’s 1-ms Day, Baby Solar Systems, Record Black Hole Crash, CRISPR Cancer Hack & AI Indiana Jones (EP. 1)

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Last week the Earth finished a full rotation one millisecond
early – but that’s just the opener.

In this week’s From First Principles we dive into six
mind-bending headlines with our trademark mix of hard science and
light-hearted banter:

Earth’s fastest spin ever recorded – what shaved a millisecond
off the day and why your chakras are still safe.

ALMA spots a “baby Earth” forming 1,300 light years away – the
first direct look at rocky planets in the making.

Biggest black-hole merger on record – 15 of mass vaporized into
pure gravitational waves, detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA.

CRISPR reveals a vitamin-D “kill switch” for tumors – how
silencing one gene in pancreatic & colon cancers triggers
4,000 downstream changes.

A star that died… then died again – the first confirmed
“double-detonation” white-dwarf supernova.

DeepMind’s Aeneas AI deciphers broken Latin tablets – giving
historians new text, provenance and dating in seconds.

Hosts • Lester Nare – storyteller & professional curiosity
machine • Dr. Krishna Choudhary – Princeton-trained physicist
& cosmic tour guide

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