A podcast about the surprising ways that science evolves. Through conversations with scientists, we trace the technology, theories, and products we see around us today back to early discoveries in the lab, while also imagining where future breakthroughs could take us. Hosted and produced by Aliyah Kovner at Berkeley Lab, aka Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Latest episodes of the podcast A Day in the Half-Life

• Reimagining Plastics
• Hydrogen: The Original Alternative Fuel
• Green Machines: The natural and artificial photosynthesis powering the planet
• Inclusion in STEM: the Name Change Initiative
• Climate Modeling
• More Microchips, Moore Problems
• Energy storage: Save your electrons for a rainy day
• Quantum Computing
• Biomanufacturing: Making Stuff with Microbes
• Dark Energy
• Machine Learning