Lance Martin presents
Strange Bites
Strange Bites is a short science podcast. Lance Martin takes a real discovery in biology, physics, neuroscience, genetics, anthropology, or paleontology and explains it in about fifteen minutes, with just enough story to make the facts stick.New episodes twice a week.
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Episode 71: The Diamond That Answered the Laser
A diamond the size of a small pebble, floating in a laboratory in Okinawa, moved because the electrons inside it changed their spin. Not because someone pushed it. Not because a magnet was switched on in the ordinary way. Because …