Wonderology

In the last episode of Wonderology, we explored fine tuning and the odds of existence. Here, in this bonus episode of Science With Faith, we pick up the questions that linger. Faith Stults and McKenzie Hill take a closer look at how delicate the balance is between complex life and no existence at all, wonder what set us on that knife’s edge, and consider the possibility of a multiverse. Along the...

Fred Hoyle is standing at a chalkboard when he realizes something is wrong. Every equation arrives at the same conclusion: the universe is producing something that science can’t explain. Something that means humanity shouldn’t exist. But the only way to fix it is to change the story of how the universe works—in a way that will spark a fight no one can walk away from. Because what he finds is only...

Who do we become if our power outpaces our wisdom? Scientists studying bacteria discover something strange: a natural system that can recognize invading DNA and cut it out. What happens when humans learn to do the same? A blind man volunteers for an experimental trial, hoping to regain his sight. A scientist conducts one of the most controversial experiments of modern science. And families discove...

What if our bodies came with operating instructions—and we could finally read them? In 1904, a young man named Walter Noel walks into a Chicago hospital. He’s been sick for a month and isn’t improving. An intern tries something medicine is only beginning to trust: they look at his blood under a microscope. His cells look nothing like anything they’ve seen before. Nearly a hundred years later, that...

Am I bad or sick? Lindsay has lived with disordered eating since childhood. She tried everything she could find, but nothing worked. For decades, each failure felt moral—like she was choosing wrong. Then she starts a new medicine, and within 24 hours, the compulsion that shaped her life disappears. If one shot can silence a lifelong impulse overnight, what does that mean about all the years before...

Is my brain me? Diane Lane is a neuroscientist. She’s spent her life studying the brain—its patterns, its failures, its power to define who we are. But when her mom has a stroke, something essential seems to slip away. The woman she knew is still there—but changed. It forces us to ask: If our brain can so deeply alter us, does it define who we are? We visit a neuroscience lab and hold real human b...

Does living in a vast universe make humanity less significant? Scott Acton spent more than 20 years helping build the most advanced telescope humanity has ever made. The goal? To see the first stars that ever turned on in our universe. If it works, we’ll be looking more than 13 billion years into the past. If it fails, that’s ten billion dollars down the drain. A lot goes wrong. But here’s the cat...

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