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A lot of people think about science as a pursuit of answers, and it is. But the most fun part is that it always, always leads to more questions. There's no limit to things to be curious about, like, can you believe we're still discovering new organisms? I can't wait to tell you about the recently discovered fire amoeba, a remarkable organism that thrives in some of the most extreme environments on Earth. And then to talk about fascinating unknowns, we'll be joined by theoretical astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack. We'll get into dark matter and the universe from beginning to end. And later, thankfully, some helpful answers about the impact of exercise on cancer prevention. Welcome to Curiosity Weekly. I'm Dr. Samantha Amin. Meet the fire amoeba, a newly discovered species that pushes the boundaries of what we thought was possible for complex life. Because it thrives at a shocking 63 degrees Celsius, that's about 145 degrees Fahrenheit. The fancy name for the fire amoeba is Incendiaba cascadensis for the hot, fiery conditions it thrives in, particularly those associated with geothermal activity, like hot springs. For a long time, scientists thought complex organisms couldn't survive that kind of heat because the high temperatures would damage their DNA and cause proteins to lose their shape. Picture cooked eggs. So most of the research around extremophiles, that's life that can survive in extreme conditions like acidity or temperature. Most of this extremophile research is focused on bacteria and archaea. They're simpler in their biology. But what about eukaryotes? Any organism whose cells have a separate nucleus for their DNA? Dogs, trees and mushrooms, and yes, even humans, are eukaryotes. And so far, there haven't been any eukaryotic organisms to survive such extreme heat. But it turns out, maybe there is one that can. A team from Syracuse University conducted field studies at Lassen Volcanic national park in California. They collected samples from a hot geothermal stream. This type of stream is typically found near volcanoes, where the heat from the magma or hot rocks can war. So they collected water and sediment samples from the geothermal stream and brought it back to the lab. There, they cultured their samples, basically mimicking the conditions of the stream in a flask. By providing the right nutrients, temperature and conditions. Over the course of several weeks, the researchers looked for signs of growth. That's when they found an unfamiliar amoeba species that had never been documented before. They reported the findings in a preprint, meaning it hasn't been peer reviewed yet. Amoeba are single celled eukaryotes, the kind of complex cell you wouldn't typically expect in such hot conditions. Now, what was most surprising was not only was the new amoeba surviving, it was reproducing at temperatures up to 63 degrees Celsius and still active at 64 degrees. Even more impressively, it could survive up to 70 degrees by forming a protective coating and essentially going dormant until the temperature dropped again. This is like 20 degrees hotter than what we think humans or other mammalian cells can handle. So this is giving biologists a reason to rethink what might be possible for life here on Earth and beyond. The team says that understanding how this little amoeba manages to exist in such extreme conditions could help scientists develop heat tolerant proteins and enzymes that could enhance everyday things. Even laundry detergent.
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But who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with. Whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.
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Dr. Samantha Amin
I'll spare you having to listen to me singing it, but the Barenaked Ladies really ate when they explained the beginning of the universe in a song. You know the one. The whole universe was in a hot, dense state that nearly 14 billion years ago expansion started. Wait, okay, I'll stop there. And I promised I wouldn't sing, and then I kind of did. Whether you know the rest of the song or you don't, we hear a lot about the early days of the universe. But when our guest looks up, she thinks about what might happen when it ends. Dr. Katie Mack studies the beginning and possible futures of the cosmos. Her book is called the End of Everything, Astrophysically speaking. And it brings those ideas to life in a way that I promise is fascinating and awe inspiring. She's an astrophysicist and the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario. You can find her pieces in Scientific American, Slate, BBC's Science Focus and lots of other places. Plus, she's a fantastic follow on Blue Sky. Welcome to the show, my good pal Katie.
Dr. Katie Mack
Thank you. I'm very happy to be here.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Your role is the Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication, which is a great name and it was. It's named after one of the most influential theoretical physicists, the late Stephen Hawking. And I've heard that you've met Stephen Hawking. Is that.
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, yeah, I met True a few times. Yeah. The first time I met him I think I was like 14 years old because I. I was at a public talk he was giving at Calte and I lived in LA at the time and I went with my mom and a friend of mine and we attended the talk and then as we were leaving, we were going the same direction he was, and I kind of stopped and said that I was a big fan, basically. And he said thank you very much. Which that's a non trivial amount of work to do if you have those communication challenges. So that was cool. Yeah. So I've sort of run into many times in my career.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Can you paint a picture for us of what a day in the life of a theoretical cosmologist or astrophysicist? Looks like. I'm assuming it's more whiteboards or like computer models than telescopes.
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, blackboards. Yeah. Yeah. So Perimeter is famous for blackboards. So we don't have a lot of whiteboards here. We've got chalk and we got blackboards and most of our work occurs on those. But yeah, it's a big mix of things. It depends on what you're working on. Yeah, it's a lot of talking to people and kind of brainstorming and sharing ideas and running things by other experts. It's much more interactive than I thought it would be. When I was a student, I thought that my vision of a theoretical physicist when I was a little kid was a lone genius, sort of locked in a windowless room somewhere with a blackboard and no one to talk to. And you just kind of having eureka moments. Spontaneous. And that's not at all what it looks like.
Dr. Samantha Amin
If only.
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah. I mean, and I thought that sounded fun because that was the kind of kid I was. But it's much more interactive than that. Yeah.
Dr. Samantha Amin
It's funny that you all are still very adamant on the blackboard, because I originally wrote that when I was preparing my questions, and I was like, no, no. Surely no one uses chalk anymore.
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, yeah. And it's cleaner. You don't have to worry about. Is the pen working? Can I erase this part or not? Because, you know, stuck to the board. So. So just technologically, I think it's a better technology, but it is. It is funny because, you know, a lot of the people here are also part of the institute. Institute for Quantum Computation down the road, and they have whiteboards. So there's. There's a cultural difference. Yeah. Between the IQC people. They have the whiteboards, and we've got the chalkboards. So that's so funny. I love it. True to your. Like, the computer people, they get the updated tech.
Dr. Samantha Amin
You all stick to the classics. I love it. Your book is on the end of the universe, and you've also researched the very beginning of the universe, the Big Bang. When you look at those two extremes side by side, is there any unexpected pattern that you see that connects them, the beginning and the end?
Dr. Katie Mack
Well, I think that one of the reasons to think about the end is because it could tell us something about the beginning. So, for example, there are theories in which the beginning of our universe is the end of a previous universe. So that's one very direct thing. But also it's like, in physics, we would call it the boundary conditions. So when you're trying to figure out what's going on inside of a box, you can look at what's happening on the boundaries, and that can give you some clues about what could be going on inside. And that's kind of how we think about the beginning and the end of the universe. It tells us something about the basic structure of reality. If there's a particular kind of beginning or a particular kind of ending, that gives us clues that can illuminate the fundamental physics of the Universe. And so it's also the most, in some cases, the most extreme conditions for the universe. It's certainly the beginning. You have really high densities, really high temperatures. The laws of physics are different in that in those conditions than they are today. And so that can give us some information about the overall structure of how physics works in our universe. And then thinking about the end as well, depending on what kind of ending you have, that can also be related to what is the fundamental structure of the universe. What are the most important laws of the universe that govern its overall evolution? And so it's really getting to the big picture question of how does it all work? And you can learn something about that by studying the very beginning and the very end.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Can you take us through what some of the current theories are for the most likely long, long, long term fate of the universe?
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, I mean, so a lot of them have to do with the question of what's going on with dark energy. So dark energy is some kind of invisible component of the universe. Maybe it's like a dynamical field where it's like an energy field that's through all the space. It could just be some property of space, how it's built into the fabric of space. But it's something that's making the universe expand faster. So the universe is expanding, the galaxies are getting farther apart from each other over time, on average. But, you know, if we look at just how that should work with gravity, and from the, you know, the Big Bang onward, it really seems like it should be slowing down just because the gravity should kind of put the brakes on that expansion. As the galaxies are moving apart, they still kind of feel each other's gravity. They should at least slow down in their expansion. And they're not slowing down, they're speeding up. And that's been known for a while. It was first discovered in the late 90s that the expansion is speeding up. And in order to explain that, we need some new physics to come in and allow for an accelerated expansion of the universe. And we don't know what that is. We call it dark energy. It could be just built into how space works. It could be some kind of energy field that's driving that accelerated expansion.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Can you tell us more about dark energy and your research there? Like, what are we learning about it these days? What are the main things we're trying to understand?
Dr. Katie Mack
Well, we really just want to understand how it affects the universe over time and in order. I mean, the idea being that if we figure out how it affects the universe over Time that could give us clues to what it is. Like, is it a kind of energy field? Is it something built into space that we call a cosmological constant? We don't know. But there aren't that many ways to study dark energy, really, because whatever it is, it seems to only really affect the expansion rate of the universe. Right. It changes how spacetime is evolving, but it doesn't bump into things or heat stuff up or whatever. It's really just affecting the expansion rate of the universe. And so we can study how the universe's expansion has changed over time. And we can do that by looking at really distant objects, so stars, galaxies, where the light has taken a really long time to get to us. And that means we're looking farther into the past. We can look at more and more distant things, look farther into the past, and therefore learn about how the expansion has changed over time. Usually we look at things like supernovae, stars that have exploded sometime in the past, and we can see that light, and that tells us something about how the universe's expansion is changing. We can also look at the patterns in how galaxies are changing, sort of distributed through the universe. And there are certain patterns that we can look for that can tell us something about the scale of the universe at different times in the history of the cosmos, like how much the universe has expanded at different times. And we can learn about the growth rate of structure. So how quickly do galaxies come together to form clusters of galaxies, stuff like that. And as the universe evolves, you know, matter kind of pulls together on small scales, and you get clusters of galaxies, and galaxies grow on larger scales, those clusters are getting farther apart from each other. But on small scales, you still get this clumping. And that can tell us something about how dark energy is affecting the overall expansion of the universe.
Dr. Samantha Amin
And just for anyone listening who might feel a little bit freaked out thinking about the end of the universe, can you reassure us how far in the future we're talking when we talk about these different ideas? The big Crunch, the.
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, yeah.
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Dr. Katie Mack
So the heat death, if it happens, is so far in the future. Like, we don't even have words to talk about how far in the future that is. Like trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions trillions of years. Like, you know, don't even worry about that. Yeah. If we're headed that direction, then in a hundred billion years, everything interesting stops happening, basically. And then beyond that, you still have a long time before the ultimate heat death. So that's a long time in terms of things like Big Crunch or Big Rip, it depends on the model. But generally, we're talking about billions or trillions of years at least. Even in the most pessimistic kind of models. There are other possibilities for the end of the universe that in principle, could be more sudden, but they're very, very speculative, so I wouldn't worry about anything.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Can I ask what got you interested in ultimate destruction and enough to write a whole book. Some people might wonder why think about the end of it all when there's so much happening right now here on Earth.
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, well, part of it is about what I said before, how when you study the beginning and when you study the end, you're kind of studying these two bookends, the start and the end of the story of the universe. And that can tell you something about how physics works in our cosmos. And that's interesting, just fundamentally. So I'm interested in that. I also thought it would just be kind of a fun topic to dig into because it's these big, dramatic, scary ideas. And somehow I find that vaguely thrilling. But it's also like, there are a lot of books about the beginning of the universe. There aren't very many about the end. And in just talking to people, you know, when I would chat with people, like friends or family or public talks or something, a lot of people had ideas about the end of the universe that are a little outdated. I would find that most people, if you just bring up the end of the universe, to them, they would be like, oh, yeah, when it all collapses in a big crunch. And that's not the most favored model right now. Right now, we think it's much more likely that the universe will never recollapse. It won't get a big crunch. It'll keep expanding forever. That fits the data better at the moment. And I think that it was interesting to see that there was a kind of gap between what the physicists are learning and what people picked up in the 1960s or whatever. Last time, this was kind of newsworthy stuff. So it was fun to get a chance to talk about some of the newer ideas and just to kind of explore a bunch of cool ideas in physics that I wouldn't otherwise get to talk about. I could get into stuff about gravity and quantum mechanics and things like that in talking about these different possibilities. And it's fun to find ways to bring all that stuff up in a way that's engaging and accessible and try and make it fun. So I enjoyed that aspect a lot.
Dr. Samantha Amin
I also need to Ask you because you're an AV geek and a licensed pilot in addition to everything you do in astrophysics, and you share a lot of it on your Instagram. I love following along and seeing how much you've learned so quickly. Can I ask what got you into the air in the first place? And you have a favorite plane?
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah. I never really was that interested in aviation growing up, but I did have an interest in space, and I wanted to be an astronaut. And I knew that, like, it's helpful to be able to fly airplanes if you're applying to be an astronaut. And so I had this idea in my head, like, maybe I should try it sometime just to get the experience and just to see. In 2020, I was temporarily living in Massachusetts because I was kind of bouncing around due to sort of pandemic disruption, and my book came out. And when the book came out, I got an advance, and suddenly I was sitting there sort of on zoom all day in this little sublet in Massachusetts. And I had a big pile of money from the book, and I had no hobbies, and so I was like, well, if I'm going to try it, now is the time. See how it goes. And the first lesson was terrifying, and I felt sick because it was turbulent that day, but I was like, I'm going to try it again. And then by the third or fourth lesson, I was, like, completely addicted, you know, listening to aviation podcasts, buying T shirts. That's awesome.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Dr. Katie Mack is a theoretical astrophysicist and the author of the book the End of Everything. Astrophysically speaking. You can find her in the skies and online at astrokatie.com on blue sky and @astrokatie Mac on Instagram. Thank you for being here, Katie.
Dr. Katie Mack
Thank you very much for having me. It was a lot of fun.
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Hey, it's Raj and Noah.
And we're back with a new season of Am I Doing It Wrong? The show that explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.
Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.
But who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with. Whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.
We'Ll be talking to experts in their fields who are are definitely doing things right. So the rest of us can be a bit wiser and a lot better equipped to handle whatever life throws at us.
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Okay, we've heard that exercise is good for our health, sure. But we're learning more about just how good it might be, even when it comes to cancer. A new study published in PNAS explored how exercise slows down tumor growth. Scientists have observed that for many types of cancer, fitness at the time of diagnosis is a really strong predictor of better outcomes, but it hasn't been clear why, which is, you know, pretty valuable information. So a team from Yale and Princeton modeled cancer in mice to take a closer look at the actual biology of exercise. They focused on metabolism, since rapidly dividing tumor cells are generally very greedy and energy hungry. To make the studies more realistic of typical North American diets, they fed the mice a high fat diet with sugar water, leading to diet induced obesity. The researchers found that these mice had more breast tumor growth compared to mice that were fed a more balanced diet, which is what we see in humans too. When they gave the obese mice access to an exercise wheel, their tumors were nearly 60% smaller than sedentary mice. And they didn't force any exercise, just whatever voluntary movement the mice chose to do next. The team wanted to see what was happening in the mice to slow tumor growth, so they used a radioactive glucose analog that lets them take glucose and then watch where it gets used up in muscles or the tumor they found that the obese mice that exercised regularly had more glucose going to their heart and skeletal muscle cells than the obese mice that didn't exercise. The researchers wanted to see if their findings about exercise applied to other types of cancer. So they looked at mice with melanoma. That's a type of skin cancer. Interestingly, obesity usually doesn't make melanoma worse. But here they found that again, exercise led to less tumor growth and more energy went to their muscles and heart instead of the tumors. The mice who were already active before getting cancer saw even better results, a sort of prehab, if you will. They also saw decreases in gene activity related to metabolism in tumor cells. These changes are similar to gene expression patterns previously reported in people with cancer who exercise. This is suggesting that the mice results in may translate to humans. The idea here is that exercise changes the way the entire body distributes energy, tipping the scales so more glucose goes to the healthy muscle cells instead of tumor cells. It's kind of like a metabolic competition. Muscle and tumors both want glucose and exercise changes who gets it. For Warner Bros. Discovery, Curiosity Weekly is produced by the team at Wheelhouse DNA. The senior producer and editorial correspondent is Teresa Carey. Our producer is Chiara Noni. Our audio engineer is Nick Karisimi. And head of production for Wheelhouse DNA is Cassie berman. And I'm Dr. Samantha Yamin. Thanks for listening. Katie. I am wondering because you're a blackboard.
Raj or Noah (Am I Doing It Wrong? Hosts)
Girl, do you use that chalk?
Dr. Samantha Amin
The famous chalk that everyone's obsessed with?
Dr. Katie Mack
Yeah, it's. It's Japanese or something. Yes.
Raj or Noah (Am I Doing It Wrong? Hosts)
Are like I can't. Like my theorem is never wrong if I use this chalk.
Dr. Katie Mack
It's like lore to the chalk.
Dr. Samantha Amin
We didn't have that at our institute.
Dr. Katie Mack
It's just really. It's just really high quality chalk. Yeah, the entire institute has. Has the good chalk. Yes. Oh my gosh.
Dr. Samantha Amin
I didn't know I used the. The peasant children's dollar store chalk.
Dr. Katie Mack
We couldn't possibly talk to the people. It would would ruin all our ideas.
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Hey, it's Raj and Noah and we're back with a new season of Am I doing it Wrong. The show that exclusive explores the all too human anxieties we have about trying to get our lives right.
Because we're still doing a lot of stuff wrong.
But who isn't? That's why each week we're talking about the topics that we could all use a little helping hit with. Whether it's making new friends as an adult, managing our emotions, or even dreaming.
We'Ll be talking to experts in their fields who are definitely doing things right, so the rest of us can be a bit wiser and a lot better equipped to handle whatever life throws at us.
Subscribe now and listen to new episodes of Am I Doing It Wrong? Dropping every Thursday starting January 1st, wherever you get your podcasts.
And for the first time ever, we're gonna have full video episodes on YouTube. Because as long as there are things to get wrong, we're gonna be right here to help you do them better.
Dr. Samantha Amin
Love y'.
Dr. Katie Mack
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Host: Dr. Samantha Yammine
Guest: Dr. Katie Mack (Theoretical Astrophysicist)
Date: January 14, 2026
This episode dives into the ultimate fate of the universe, exploring current scientific theories on how it might all end, featuring an in-depth conversation with Dr. Katie Mack, theoretical astrophysicist and author of The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking). Alongside cosmic endings, the show delivers updates on recent discoveries in extremophile biology and groundbreaking research on the links between exercise and cancer outcomes.
[02:18 – 05:52]
Notable Quote:
"This is like 20 degrees hotter than what we think humans or other mammalian cells can handle. So this is giving biologists a reason to rethink what might be possible for life here on Earth and beyond."
– Dr. Samantha Yammine [05:33]
[07:48 – 22:50]
[08:46 – 11:42]
Notable Quote:
"My vision of a theoretical physicist when I was a little kid was a lone genius, sort of locked in a windowless room somewhere with a blackboard and no one to talk to... and that's not at all what it looks like."
– Dr. Katie Mack [09:59]
[11:42 – 13:37]
Notable Quote:
"If there's a particular kind of beginning or a particular kind of ending, that gives us clues that can illuminate the fundamental physics of the Universe."
– Dr. Katie Mack [12:30]
[13:37 – 17:29]
Notable Quote:
"Whatever it is, it seems to only really affect the expansion rate of the universe. Right. It changes how spacetime is evolving, but it doesn't bump into things or heat stuff up or whatever.”
– Dr. Katie Mack [15:30]
[17:29 – 18:50]
Notable Quote:
“If we're headed that direction, then in a hundred billion years, everything interesting stops happening, basically. And then beyond that, you still have a long time before the ultimate heat death... don’t even worry about that.”
– Dr. Katie Mack [17:43]
[18:50 – 20:58]
Notable Quote:
"A lot of people had ideas about the end of the universe that are a little outdated... It's much more likely that the universe will never recollapse. It'll keep expanding forever. That fits the data better at the moment."
– Dr. Katie Mack [19:50]
[20:58 – 22:50]
Notable Quote:
"By the third or fourth lesson, I was, like, completely addicted, you know, listening to aviation podcasts, buying T shirts. That's awesome."
– Dr. Katie Mack [22:08]
[24:53 – 27:59]
Notable Quote:
“Muscle and tumors both want glucose and exercise changes who gets it.”
– Dr. Samantha Yammine [27:37]
[27:59 – 28:43]
Notable Quote:
"We couldn't possibly talk to the people. It would ruin all our ideas."
– Dr. Katie Mack [28:31]
| Segment | Timestamp | |------------------------------------------------------------|------------| | Discovery: Fire Amoeba | 02:18–05:52| | Interview: Meeting Hawking & Life as a Cosmologist | 08:46–11:42| | Theories on the End and Beginning of the Universe | 11:42–13:37| | What is Dark Energy? | 13:37–17:29| | Timescales: Don’t Worry About the End! | 17:29–18:50| | Why Write About Cosmic Endings? | 18:50–20:58| | Flying, Astronaut Dreams & Hobbies | 20:58–22:50| | Latest Science: Exercise and Cancer | 24:53–27:59| | Physicists' Chalkboard Lore | 27:59–28:43|
The conversation is lively, accessible, and playful, with Dr. Yammine and Dr. Mack making even daunting cosmic concepts engaging for non-specialists. They blend humor and wonder, use clear analogies, and never shy away from scientific nuance.
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Curiosity Weekly is produced by Wheelhouse DNA for Warner Bros. Discovery. Host: Dr. Samantha Yammine.
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