Lance Martin

Science done dark. Real facts in a creative wrapper. Episodes 15 min or less, twice weekly. Stay Strange & Question Everything.

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In Episode 54 we step into the dark with the creatures who own the night… and the chemical secrets they leave behind. Come join me. #science

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We do not yet know what this means for a sixty-year-old human being. We only know the switch exists. And once you know a switch exists, you can never again pretend the darkness is inevitable. You can only decide whether you want to reach for the light. Come join me for episode 53

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Episode 52 is not about encoding your vacation photos into genes. That is a different kind of magic, and we will leave it on the shelf. Tonight is stranger

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Come join me for Episode 51 where we learn about what holds the world together. https://t.co/wIJgIhK7Q4

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Wow! Fifty Episodes. From the first quiet story to this one, tonight we mark a milestone. To every one of you who has listened, shared, questioned, or simply stayed strange with me… thank you. You’ve kept the signal alive.
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In episode 49 we’re going hunting in a place most of us never think about, the hidden city inside a tumor. https://t.co/owrLvQFvhG

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In Episode 48 I ask you to Imagine the human genome as a vast, haunted library. Every shelf is a chromosome. Every book is a stretch of DNA. Come join me. https://t.co/GDo13GJTpB

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Hundreds of feet below the surface an entire ecosystem of rock-eating fungi, microscopic animals, and parasites has been quietly thriving in total darkness for thousands of years. This is the story of how we found them… and what it means that they were there all along.

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Come join me for Episode 46: Whispers in the Blood. #science #weirdscience #podcast #strangebites

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Twenty-four thousand rubidium atoms chilled to a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. So cold that the atoms have stopped behaving like individuals. They’ve merged into what physicists call a Bose-Einstein condensate. Episode 45, The Night Time Emerged, is live.

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Something is turning one of the most toxic, radioactive metals on Earth into a solid that doesn’t want to move. A compound so stable it has already outlived the people who first noticed it.
Episode 44 is the story of the bacteria that eats poison and spit out rock.

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In Episode 43 we are not chasing ghosts or ancient legends. We’re chasing something real, something happening right now in the humid forests of West Africa. Something that sounds like it could be the very first rock concert on Earth.

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Episode 42 is a deep, weird, wonderful bite into one of the wildest discoveries of 2026: the story of SpudCell and what it means when humans learn to build life from the ground up, so come on and dive in with me. #spudcell

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Episode 40 is about what happens inside your head when the lights go out under general anesthesia. Spoiler: your brain doesn’t just power down like an old laptop. Come join me!

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In Episode 39 we’re stepping into the story of how light from a pink world traveled across the galaxy, got tangled in salt crystals, and forced us to rewrite what we thought we knew about planets, clouds, and the weird chemistry hiding in the dark.

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Imagine you lose a finger in an accident. The wound closes. A scar forms. The story ends there, a permanent reminder etched into your flesh. Now imagine something else. The same wound… but instead of a scar, new bone grows. Episode 36 is live.

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In Episode 37 we’re heading south of the border to the lush hills of Veracruz, Mexico on A quiet piece of land near the town of Coatepec. Local notice big, suspiciously shaped stones being shifted around by construction crews. Stones that look… old. Really old.

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Imagine stepping out into a quiet field on a clear night. The stars wheel overhead. Everything feels… still. But what if I told you that right beneath the soles of your shoes, an ancient, living superhighway is humming with activity? Episode 35 is live.

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Today, we dive into the Great Barrier Reef to visit a creature so perfectly disguised that it evaded science for decades. A tiny phantom, draped in living filaments that make it look like a forgotten relic from a children’s story. Episode 34, the Snuffleupagus of the Sea

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Today we plunge into the murky waters of the Piedras de la Barbada site near Benicarló, Spain, where science cracked open a mystery sealed by the sea. Episode 33: Helmets from the Deep is live.