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8:02

Katherine Johnson’s Math Will Steer NASA Back to the...

Science, Spoken ·

2020/03/04

Katherine Johnson blazed trails, not just as a black female mathematician during the Cold War, but by mapping literal paths through outer space. Her math continues to carve out new paths for spacecraft navigating our solar system, as NASA engineers use evolved versions of her equations that will execute missions to the moon and beyond. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:23

So, Amphibians Glow. Humans Just Couldn't See...

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2020/03/03

You’ve never seen amphibians in this light before. Like, literally, this specific azure light. Today in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers for the first time show that amphibians glow if you throw blue light on them. The tiger salamander suddenly pops with brilliant green spots. Cranwell's horned frog is striped in a nuclear glow. Even the marbled salamander’s tiny toe bones fluoresce brightly—oh, and as does its cloaca, perhaps as a kind of sexual display. Learn more about your ad choices

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4:09

Glowing Amphibians, Extreme Weather Satellites, and...

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2020/03/02

Frogs are reflecting and satellites are detecting, but first: a cartoon about self-driving without a license. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s News Amphibians glow. Humans just couldn't see it—until now New research in Scientific Reports reveals that amphibians actually glow, and always have—scientists just couldn't see it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:45

Australia's Bushfires Completely Blasted Through the...

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2020/02/28

Today in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers are publishing a series of articles as a kind of postmortem of the Australian bushfires. The series is both a diagnosis of what happened as flames swept across the continent, and a call to action for researchers the world over: Climate change is a crisis for people, the natural world at large—and for science itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:56

Bezos’ Earth Fund Should Invest in These Green...

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2020/02/27

On Monday, Amazon CEO and world’s richest human Jeff Bezos announced he was pledging nearly 8 percent of his net worth to fight climate change. This money, known as the Bezos Earth Fund, will be used to support “any effort that offers a real possibility to help preserve and protect the natural world,” Bezos wrote in an Instagram post. There are plenty of problems with a billionaire single-handedly dictating how the world community will fight climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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12:20

How a Princess Cruise Became a Coronavirus Catastrophe

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2020/02/26

When the Diamond Princess left the port of Yokohama in Japan on January 20, the 2,666 passengers on board were ready to unwind with a trip to China, Vietnam and Taiwan. But two weeks later they’d find themselves confined to their cabins, allowed out for only a few hours each day, while 542 of their fellow passengers and crew tested positive for Covid-19—the novel virus that has infected 75,000 people worldwide. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:41

Want to Look Inside a Brain? With Transparent Organs,...

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2020/02/25

Your organs are a lot of things—a powerful computer (in the case of your brain), detoxers (your liver and kidneys), breathing devices (your lungs). But there’s one thing they’re decidedly not: transparent. That’s unless you’re Kevin Bacon in The Invisible Man, or if your organs end up in the lab of Ali Ertürk, director of Helmholtz Munich’s Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:20

The Atlantic Ocean's 'Conveyor Belt' Stirs Up a...

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2020/02/24

Smack dab between eastern Canada’s Misery Point and Greenland's Cape Desolation is a place where the thrashing of the Atlantic Ocean’s churn sounds about as friendly as the nearby place names. This stretch of water, the Labrador Sea, has long been considered a critical junction in the global circulatory system of the world's oceans. By pumping warm water north and cool water south, the system regulates the planet’s climate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:53

'Baby Talk' Can Help Kids Learn Language (Oh Yes It...

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2020/02/21

Confronted with a baby—or puppy—most adults can’t stop themselves from dissolving into baby talk: “WHO’S the cutest? It’s YOU! YES it IS!” We slow down, increase our pitch by nearly an octave, and milk each vowel for all it’s worth. And even if the baby can’t speak yet, we mimic the turn-taking of a conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:03

Psychedelic Fiber Offers a New Twist on the Science...

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2020/02/20

One sunny day last summer, Mathias Kolle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took a couple of eminent colleagues out sailing. They talked about their research. They had some drinks. Then Kolle noticed something was off: A rowboat tied to his boat had come loose and was drifting toward the horizon. As he tacked across the water to retrieve the wayward vessel, he realized his mistake. In securing the rowboat, he must have tied the knot wrong. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:41

A Car ‘Splatometer’ Study Finds Huge Insect Die-Off

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2020/02/19

This story originally appeared on The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Two scientific studies of the number of insects splattered by cars have revealed a huge decline in abundance at European sites in two decades. The research adds to growing evidence of what some scientists have called an “insect apocalypse,” which is threatening a collapse in the natural world that sustains humans and all life on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

This Marsupial Dies After Marathon Mating. Now It's...

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2020/02/18

What if I told you that in Australia, a mouse-like marsupial called antechinus breeds so manically during its three-week mating season that the males bleed internally and go blind, until every male lies dead? And what if I told you that this isn’t the reason the species is facing an existential threat? Reporting today in the journal Frontiers in Physiology, biologists from University of New England in Australia and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology present troubling evidence that

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6:23

NASA Puts a Price on a 2024 Moon Landing

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2020/02/17

Nearly 10 months after Vice President Mike Pence directed NASA to return astronauts to the Moon by 2024, the space agency has estimated how much its Artemis Program will cost. NASA says it will need an additional $35 billion over the next four years—on top of its existing budget—to develop a Human Landing System to get down to the Moon's surface from lunar orbit while also accelerating other programs to make the 2024 date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:19

Europe’s Solar Orbiter Begins Its Journey to the Sun

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2020/02/14

Just before midnight on Sunday, a spacecraft will depart from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to the sun. Known as Solar Orbiter, this spacecraft will spend the next seven years dipping in and out of the extremely inhospitable environment around the sun. In the process, it will provide us with our first glimpse of the sun’s poles, which will be critical to understanding its topsy-turvy magnetic field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:27

The Terrifying Science Behind the Locust Plagues of...

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2020/02/13

Tearing across East Africa right now is a plague of biblical proportions: Hundreds of billions of locusts in swarms the size of major cities are laying waste to the crops in their path. It’s the worst outbreak in 25 years in Ethiopia. In Kenya, make that the worst in seven decades. Fueling the locusts’ destruction is a bounty of vegetation following unusually heavy rains. All that food means the landscape can support a huge number of rapidly breeding insects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:59

The Secret to Blowing Massive Soap Bubbles

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2020/02/12

Everybody loves bubbles, regardless of age—the bigger the better. But to blow really big, world-record-scale bubbles requires a very precise bubble mixture. Physicists have determined that a key ingredient is mixing in polymers of varying strand lengths, according to a new paper in Physical Review Fluids. That produces a soap film able to stretch sufficiently thin to make a giant bubble without breaking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:26

A Promising Crispr Trial, Happy-ish Tesla Investors,...

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2020/02/11

Gene-editing trials are optimistic and Tesla stocks are going ballistic, but first: a cartoon about meme cinema. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s News Crispr-edited cells show promise in first US human safety trial Initial reports on the safety of the nation’s first in-human test of the disease-fighting potential of Crispr gene editing are here: So far, so good. Learn more about your ad

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12:11

Crispr'd Cells Show Promise in First US Human Safety...

Science, Spoken ·

2020/02/10

It’s been over three years since US regulators greenlit the nation’s first in-human test of Crispr’s disease-fighting potential, more than three years of waiting to find out if the much-hyped gene-editing technique could be safely used to beat back tough-to-treat cancers. Today, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford finally revealed the first published report describing the trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:41

Permafrost Is Thawing So Fast, It’s Gouging Holes in...

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2020/02/07

It’s perhaps the best known and more worrisome of climate feedback loops: As the planet warms, permafrost—landscapes of frozen soil and rock—begins to thaw. And when it does, microbes consume organic matter, releasing CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, leading to more warming, more thawing, and even more carbon emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:36

A Bionic Jellyfish Swims With Manic Speed (for a...

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2020/02/06

No disrespect, but roboticists have got nothing on the animal kingdom. Birds cut through the air with ease, while our drones plummet out of the sky. Humans balance elegantly on two legs, while humanoid robots fall on their faces. It takes roboticists a whole lot of work to even begin to approach the wonders of evolution. But maybe if you can’t beat ‘em, hack ‘em. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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