Science Bytes
By Lance Pickens
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Episodes: 46
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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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Recalibrating the Clock on Animal Origins
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Oct 07, 2026 |
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The evolutionary origins of helpless human babies
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Sep 28, 2026 |
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Hearing the Jurassic: Ultrasonic Insect Songs
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Sep 14, 2026 |
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A High-Energy Clue in the Search for Dark Matter
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Sep 03, 2026 |
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Testing Feynman's Infinite Quantum Paths
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Aug 28, 2026 |
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How Narwhals Found Hidden Heat Melting Greenland Glaciers
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Aug 27, 2026 |
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Massive Denisovan Leg Bones Dredged Off Taiwan
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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The Incomplete Metabolism of Our Earliest Ancestor
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Aug 13, 2026 |
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Reprogramming Peanut Allergies With Donor Gut Bacteria
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Aug 07, 2026 |
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Starving Glioblastoma: Why Brain Tumor Stem Cells Run on Fat
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Aug 02, 2026 |
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How Super El Niño Events Trigger Lasting Climate Shifts
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Jul 23, 2026 |
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Why Your Thoughts Are Not Made of Words
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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Dyson Spheres Around Dying Stars: Where to Look on the H–R Diagram
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Jul 16, 2026 |
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Tracking Human Evolution Through 15,000 Ancient Genomes
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Jul 13, 2026 |
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The Lizard, the Hormone, and the Drugs That Ate the World: A GLP-1 Explainer
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Jul 10, 2026 |
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 4: Revival, Theory, and the Road Ahead
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 3: Inside the Lattice
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Jul 04, 2026 |
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 2: Measuring the Heat, Hunting the Ash
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, Part 1: The Barrier and the Bombshell
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Jul 03, 2026 |
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Thermophotovoltaics: Electricity Without Turbines
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Are Scientific Paradigm Shifts a Myth?
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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A Thousand-Year Peak in California Fault Stress
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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Forest Rewilding in the Wake of the Black Death
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Jun 24, 2026 |
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A History of Acid-Base Chemistry, Part 3: Protons, Electron Pairs, and Superacids
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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A History of Acid-Base Chemistry, Part 2: Ions in the Water
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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A History of Acid-Base Chemistry, Part 1: Sour, Slippery, and Misunderstood
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Turning Brain Tissue to Glass: The Science of Vitrification
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Catching Emotions Online: The Facebook Experiment
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Jun 20, 2026 |
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Two Mouths, One Embryo: A Master Organizer in Comb Jellies
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Faking Newton's Third Law: Physics of Non-Reciprocal Forces
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Jun 19, 2026 |
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Gravity From Entropy: Spacetime as Quantum Information
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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Why AI Learns Faster by Understanding the Rules of the Game
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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The Gender Attractiveness Gap: Why Beauty Depends on the Rater
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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California's Faults at a 1,000-Year Stress High
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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A Molecular Clock That Tracks Aging and Mortality
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Jun 08, 2026 |
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Could Iron Minerals Have Sparked Life Before Enzymes Existed?
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Jun 06, 2026 |
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Sleeping Beauty, Multiverses, and the Math of Being an Observer
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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What If Dark Energy Is Just a Glitch from the Big Bang?
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Neural Networks: From Simple Math to Training Modern AI
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May 28, 2026 |
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The Hidden Cost of Stored Sperm Across the Animal Kingdom
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May 20, 2026 |
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Do Sperm Whales Have Vowels? The Hidden Phonology of Clicks
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May 20, 2026 |
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The World's Oldest Octopus That Wasn't
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May 20, 2026 |
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Did Knuckle-Walking Shape the Human Hand?
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May 20, 2026 |
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One Urine Test, 34 Drugs: Inside a Tox Lab Upgrade
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May 16, 2026 |
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The Fat Byproduct That Warms You and Builds Bone
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May 16, 2026 |
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Wiring the Brain With Engineered Fish Synapses
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May 16, 2026 |