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Hosted by Lance Pickens · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 40 episodes
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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.
Lance Pickens hosts Science Bytes, a science show with 40 episodes published.
For years, Denisovans were a phantom lineage known mostly from DNA, teeth, and a single finger bone. Now, two fossilized leg bones dredged from a seafloor channel off the coast of Taiwan provide rare evidence of their ac
The Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA, possessed a functional ribosome and complete nucleotide synthesis, but its metabolic network was drastically incomplete. By analyzing hundreds of core reactions across modern
A recent Phase 1 trial investigated whether swallowing capsules of donor gut bacteria can reprogram the immune system to tolerate peanuts. Researchers administered the pills to adults with severe peanut allergies, someti
Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer that almost inevitably returns after surgery due to resilient cancer stem cells. While most tumors gorge on sugar to grow, recent research reveals that glioblastoma stem cells a
Recent research reveals that while ordinary El Niño events cause temporary weather disturbances, extreme versions of this phenomenon leave a much longer footprint. When sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific spi
For centuries, philosophers have debated whether human thoughts are literally made of words. Recent neuroscience research investigates the human brain to reveal that formal logical reasoning is actually separate from nat
What would an alien Dyson sphere — a shell built to capture a star's entire energy output — actually look like to our telescopes? A single-author study by Amirnezam Amiri models the infrared signatures of these hypotheti
For the last ten thousand years, human evolution has been running on overdrive to keep up with massive lifestyle changes like farming. By analyzing over 15,000 ancient genomes alongside modern DNA, researchers mapped a g
How a desert lizard's venom became the best-selling medicines on Earth. We trace the science of GLP-1 receptor agonists from 1990 — when endocrinologist John Eng isolated exendin-4 from Gila monster venom, a hormone that
Part 4 of 4, the finale. Cold fusion never quite died — and lately it has been revived by unlikely backers. We trace Google's multi-year, multi-lab investigation and NASA's lattice-confinement work, the newer research pr
Part 3 of 4. Cold fusion's most reproducible finding is also its strangest prerequisite: you have to cram deuterium into palladium past a critical loading ratio — roughly 0.85 to 0.90 deuterium atoms per palladium atom —
Part 2 of 4. If cold fusion really released nuclear-scale energy, it should betray itself two ways: as heat you can measure and as nuclear ash you can detect. We dig into calorimetry — how you actually measure excess hea
Part 1 of 4. Before we can weigh the extraordinary claim of cold fusion, we need the ordinary physics it defies. We build the yardstick: the electrostatic Coulomb barrier that keeps two nuclei apart, the quantum tunnelin
Thermophotovoltaics: Turning White-Hot Heat into Electricity with No Moving Parts This episode was generated by AI from the cited research paper.
The popular idea of the paradigm shift suggests that scientific progress happens through dramatic revolutions that completely discard old knowledge. An analysis of over seven hundred major discoveries, including more tha
A model from the University of Bern reconstructing a millennium of California seismic history reveals that tectonic stress along two major faults has reached an all-time peak. By simulating how historical earthquakes shi
When the Black Death devastated human populations in 1347, nature quickly reclaimed the abandoned Italian countryside. Ancient oaks reveal a massive, synchronized pulse of tree establishment that began in the early 1400s
Part 3 of 3, the finale. Two chemists in two countries land on the same idea in the same year - that an acid simply hands off a proton - while a third reframes the whole subject around the electron pair. We cover the Bro
Part 2 of 3. A Swedish graduate student nearly flunks his thesis for claiming that acids shatter into charged ions in water - then wins a Nobel Prize for the same idea. The story of the classical ionic theory: Arrhenius'
Part 1 of 3. Before anyone wrote H+ on a chalkboard, acids were known by their sour bite and bases by their slippery feel. We trace the first real theories of acidity: Robert Boyle's color-changing indicators, Lavoisier'
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