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Science Bytes

Lance Pickens

Bite-sized, two-host deep dives into the research papers behind the headlines. Each episode takes one new study — physics, biology, AI, the cosmos — and turns it into a clear, curious conversation you can follow without a PhD.

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46 episódios

  1. Recalibrating the Clock on Animal Origins 9:18
  2. The evolutionary origins of helpless human babies 10:51
  3. Hearing the Jurassic: Ultrasonic Insect Songs 10:47
  4. A High-Energy Clue in the Search for Dark Matter 11:26
  5. Testing Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths 13:37
  6. How Narwhals Found Hidden Heat Melting Greenland Glaciers 9:10
  7. Massive Denisovan Leg Bones Dredged Off Taiwan 8:07
  8. The Incomplete Metabolism of Our Earliest Ancestor 13:07
  9. Reprogramming Peanut Allergies With Donor Gut Bacteria 12:45
  10. Starving Glioblastoma: Why Brain Tumor Stem Cells Run on Fat 15:13
  11. How Super El Niño Events Trigger Lasting Climate Shifts 15:30
  12. Why Your Thoughts Are Not Made of Words 12:52
  13. Dyson Spheres Around Dying Stars: Where to Look on the H–R Diagram 12:54
  14. Tracking Human Evolution Through 15,000 Ancient Genomes 12:36
  15. The Lizard, the Hormone, and the Drugs That Ate the World: A GLP-1 Explainer 19:17
  16. Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 4: Revival, Theory, and the Road Ahead 23:04
  17. Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 3: Inside the Lattice 15:29
  18. Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 2: Measuring the Heat, Hunting the Ash 32:59
  19. Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 1: The Barrier and the Bombshell 15:30
  20. Thermophotovoltaics: Electricity Without Turbines 24:36
  21. Are Scientific Paradigm Shifts a Myth? 13:07
  22. A Thousand-Year Peak in California Fault Stress 12:00
  23. Forest Rewilding in the Wake of the Black Death 15:02
  24. A History of Acid-Base Chemistry, Part 3: Protons, Electron Pairs, and Superacids 10:32
  25. A History of Acid-Base Chemistry, Part 2: Ions in the Water 11:45
  26. A History of Acid-Base Chemistry, Part 1: Sour, Slippery, and Misunderstood 10:35
  27. Turning Brain Tissue to Glass: The Science of Vitrification 12:11
  28. Catching Emotions Online: The Facebook Experiment 12:18
  29. Two Mouths, One Embryo: A Master Organizer in Comb Jellies 11:33
  30. Faking Newton's Third Law: Physics of Non-Reciprocal Forces 12:05
  31. Gravity From Entropy: Spacetime as Quantum Information 12:10
  32. Why AI Learns Faster by Understanding the Rules of the Game 11:15
  33. The Gender Attractiveness Gap: Why Beauty Depends on the Rater 6:36
  34. California's Faults at a 1,000-Year Stress High 13:02
  35. A Molecular Clock That Tracks Aging and Mortality 13:43
  36. Could Iron Minerals Have Sparked Life Before Enzymes Existed? 7:42
  37. Sleeping Beauty, Multiverses, and the Math of Being an Observer 19:01
  38. What If Dark Energy Is Just a Glitch from the Big Bang? 15:13
  39. Neural Networks: From Simple Math to Training Modern AI 12:13
  40. The Hidden Cost of Stored Sperm Across the Animal Kingdom 12:08
  41. Do Sperm Whales Have Vowels? The Hidden Phonology of Clicks 12:36
  42. The World's Oldest Octopus That Wasn't 12:36
  43. Did Knuckle-Walking Shape the Human Hand? 13:47
  44. One Urine Test, 34 Drugs: Inside a Tox Lab Upgrade 12:58
  45. The Fat Byproduct That Warms You and Builds Bone 17:30
  46. Wiring the Brain With Engineered Fish Synapses 10:35