Have you ever noticed how science and the paranormal sometimes starts to overlap?

That's exactly why we've been loving Curiosity Weekly, a podcast from Discovery that takes huge

questions about science and technology and impacts them in a way that feels, well, just a little uncanny.

Think about this. What if artificial intelligence could unlock ancient secrets, like reading hieroglyphs from Egyptian

pyramids that no human has ever been able to fully understand?

Or what if plastic bottles that you throw in the recycling bin could one day be turned into

jet fuel powerful enough to fly a plane across the Atlantic?

And then there are the episodes that feel like they're straight

out of horror. There's one episode about a fungus that literally hijacks insects, turning them into

mindless zombies. Real life, zombie parasites. The zombie fungus operates on a precise biological

clock. Apparently, the infected fruit flies only die at sunset. So a research team

has found this timing to be so reliable that they actually schedule their lab experiments around it.

Yeah, setting the artificial sunset right before they go to lunch so they can return from their

break and find freshly dead flies ready for collection. That's why Curiosity Weekly is so interesting.

It doesn't just explore science for science sake.

It shows how close the discoveries get to horror, mystery, and the supernatural.

And how much stranger our world really is than it seems.

So we're going to play a short clip for you so you can hear it for yourself.

Science is constantly evolving with new discoveries happening every week. Cracking your genetic

code, microbes surviving in space, just a glimpse of the breakthroughs happening right now.

I'm Dr. Samantha Amin, and I'm the new host of Curiosity

Weekly from Discovery. Each episode, we dive into cutting-edge topics. With expert guests,

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