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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: The Electric Universe Inside You - Dr. Michael Hughes, DemystifySci #338
Description: Michael Hughes is a postdoctoral researcher at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital who studies the overlooked role of water in living systems. His work builds on a growing body of research suggesting that water is not just a passive solvent, but a highly structured, information-rich medium. Hughes proposes that under normal biological conditions, water’s ability to form liquid crystalline phases, hydration shells, and coherent domains allows it to act more like an information storage system than an inert backdrop to biochemistry. Drawing on ideas like EZ water, interf...