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How To Accidentally Save the World (with Fungus)

How did a moldy melon from Peoria, Illinois save more than half a billion lives? And what does it have to do with using killer viruses to make people better when they’re sick? It’s all down to one notorious lab accident that most people would have just thrown in the trash. Curiosity in the face of failure is what gave us modern antibiotics…and the viruses that just might save us from superbugs.
Season 1 Episode 4 Length 19:51 Premiere: 03/04/24

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How Moldy Bread Can Change Your Brain

S1 E8 Length 19:38 Premiere Date 07/01/24

How a Kitchen Mishap Changed Science Forever

S1 E7 Length 16:16 Premiere Date 06/17/24

Allergies: Why Does Your Body Hate You?

S1 E6 Length 18:07 Premiere Date 05/13/24

Invasion of the Toxic Toads: Nature's Most Successful Failure

S1 E5 Length 17:20 Premiere Date 04/01/24

How To Accidentally Save the World (with Fungus)

S1 E4 Length 19:51 Premiere Date 03/04/24

How Pigeon Poop Helped Unlock the Universe’s Secrets

S1 E3 Length 16:09 Premiere Date 02/05/24

How 1800s Parties Discovered Anesthesia

S1 E2 Length 18:51 Premiere Date 01/08/24

How To Accidentally Invent A Color

S1 E1 Length 18:52 Premiere Date 12/04/23

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