025 Peanut Butter, Jam and LIGO

Episode 25 is our series 2 finale as Jack and Ben take a much needed break to enjoy the reopening of the world and their respective summers or winters. Ben kicks the episode off with a biological breakthrough in how vaccines are manufactured, whilst Jack tells the story of reaching level 2 in creating Bose-Einstein Condensates. There’s a story all about the incredible 3-D printed hydrogels that could be a boon for medics and we have some fundamental physics in the form of exotic compact objects. Plus we talk about the latest developments on NASA’s current mission to Mars. Cell-Free Vaccines https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210422093832.htm https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22329-3 3D Printing Hydrogels https://phys.org/news/2021-04-frontier-3d-state-of-the-art-soft-materials.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22802-z Exotic Compact Objects https://www.livescience.com/exotic-compact-objects-break-physics.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_star Bose-Einstein Condensate Molecule https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-harnessed-thousands-of-molecules-into-a-single-quantum-state Mars Ingenuity Update https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/297/ingenuity-completes-its-fourth-flight/