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Science, Spoken

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8:29

A Tiny Glass Bead Goes as Still as Nature Allows

Science, Spoken ·

2020/02/05

Inside a small metal box on a laboratory table in Vienna, physicist Markus Aspelmeyer and his team have engineered, perhaps, the quietest place on Earth. The area in question is a microscopic spot in the middle of the box. Here, levitating in midair—except there is no air because the box is in vacuum—is a tiny glass bead a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand. Aspelmeyer’s apparatus uses lasers to render this bead literally motionless. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:50

Coronavirus Research Is Moving at Top Speed—With a Catch

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2020/02/04

Jonathan Read admits to being something of a dinosaur when it comes to publishing his work. An epidemiologist at Lancaster University in the UK, Read had always followed the old ways—submit to a journal, get accepted, get comments and edits from peer reviewers, revise the article, publish. But a few years ago, something started nagging at him. That process typically moves a lot slower than a disease outbreak. And even when it moves fast, it can involve considerations besides rigor. Learn more about

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4:04

A Spinning Rocket Slinger, a Bionic Jellyfish, and...

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2020/02/03

Rocket ships are spinning and jellyfish are winning, but first: a cartoon about Instagram art. 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 Inside Spinlaunch, the space industry's best-kept secret A company called Spinlaunch is giving life to a decades-old idea for how to get rockets into space: spin them here on earth and hurl them into the cosmos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:26

Would the Coronavirus Quarantine of Wuhan Even Work?

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2020/01/31

The Chinese government announced Wednesday that it would quarantine the city of Wuhan, the center of an outbreak of a new viral disease that has (officially) killed 17 people and infected more than 500. As of 10 AM Thursday morning in Wuhan—9 PM EST—no flights were leaving the airport. High-speed rail won’t depart for Shanghai, 500 miles to the east, or anywhere else. The bus terminals and roads are closed. Supposedly, it’s no one in or out. To be clear, that’s nuts. Learn more about your ad

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8:56

Spot the Robot Dog Trots Into the Big, Bad World

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2020/01/30

This autumn, after years of dropping view-amassing videos of Spot the robot dog fending off stick-wielding humans and opening doors for its pals, Boston Dynamics finally announced that the machine was hitting the market—for a select few early adopters, at least. BD’s people would be the first to tell you that they don’t fully know what the hypnotically agile robot will be best at. Things like patrolling job sites, sure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:42

The Most Complete Brain Map Ever Is Here: A Fly's...

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2020/01/29

When asked what’s so special about Drosophila melanogaster, or the common fruit fly, Gerry Rubin quickly gets on a roll. Rubin has poked and prodded flies for decades, including as a leader of the effort to sequence their genome. So permit him to count their merits. They’re expert navigators, for one, zipping around without crashing into walls. They have great memories, too, he adds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:59

A Robot Dog With a Job, a Noise-Canceling Car, and...

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2020/01/28

Hyundai is solving and robots are evolving, but first: a cartoon about parental phone tracking. 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 Spot the robot dog trots into the big, bad world You've probably seen the videos of Boston Dynamics' incredible (and creepy) robot dog Spot opening doors, trotting in parking lots, and fending off stick-wielding humans. Learn more about your ad choices

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9:53

Athletic Authorities Must Reckon With Racing Tech Again

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2020/01/27

On October 12, 2019, Eliud Kipchoge crossed under a pink finishing arch emblazoned with the time 1:59:40. He had just become the first person to run a marathon in under two hours. For a few hours, this achievement, long unthinkable, was celebrated across the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:06

The Science Behind Crafting a Perfect Espresso

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2020/01/24

Forgive baristas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:12

Could China's New Coronavirus Become a Global Epidemic?

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2020/01/23

What began in mid-December as a mysterious cluster of respiratory illnesses has now killed at least six people, sickened hundreds more, and spread to five other countries, including the US. On Tuesday, American health officials confirmed the nation’s first case of the novel coronavirus: a Washington man hospitalized outside of Seattle last week with pneumonia-like symptoms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:56

Pop Culture May Evolve at the Same Rate as Birds and...

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2020/01/22

We like to think modern culture moves at a dizzying pace, fueled by a relentless parade of new works of music, literature, and technological design. Change in nature, by contrast, seems to follow a slower trajectory as genetic mutations over generations give animals bigger teeth, say, or a better camouflage. But maybe the opposite is true, and human culture doesn’t move so fast and we consumers are less eager to embrace change than we realize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:29

Scientists Fight Back Against Toxic ‘Forever’ Chemicals

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2020/01/21

On the day Susan Gordon learned Venetucci Farm, in Colorado, was contaminated by toxins, the vegetables looked just as good as ever, the grass as green, and the cattle, hogs, chickens, and goats as healthy. The beauty of the community farm she and her husband managed made the revelation all the more tragic. Chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, invisible and insidious, had tainted the groundwater beneath her feet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:59

Meet Xenobot, an Eerie New Kind of Programmable Organism

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2020/01/20

Under the watchful eye of a microscope, busy little blobs scoot around in a field of liquid—moving forward, turning around, sometimes spinning in circles. Drop cellular debris onto the plain and the blobs will herd them into piles. Flick any blob onto its back and it’ll lie there like a flipped-over turtle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:45

A Feral Cat Infestation, Swarms of Snake Emoji, and...

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2020/01/17

Cats are in the rubble and snakes are causing trouble, but first: a cartoon about the internet frontier. 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 Cats are making Australia's bushfire tragedy even worse Animals trying to escape Australia's fires now face a new adversary: cats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:03

Cats Are Making Australia's Bushfire Tragedy Even Worse

Science, Spoken ·

2020/01/16

Cats are scientifically, objectively, monumentally terrible for the planet. In the US alone, free-ranging domestic cats kill up to 3.7 billion birds and 20.7 billion mammals a year, to say nothing of reptiles and amphibians. They are a scourge of the highest order. Now felines are poised to exacerbate the ecological crisis unfolding in Australia as an unprecedented fire season rips across the continent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:12

Australia’s Wildfires Might Intensify Future Climate...

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2020/01/15

Australia’s wildfires are burning with such intensity that they’re sparking contained, small-scale weather systems. Thunderstorms triggered by atmospheric disturbance might at first seem to offer relief in the form of raindrops, but instead, bolts of lightning can strike nearby trees and spread the fire even further than before. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:29

Scientists Made a Nearly Invincible Lithium-Ion Battery

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2020/01/14

Lithium-ion batteries have shaped the modern world. These power pouches are at the heart of most rechargeable electronics, from cell phones and laptops to vapes and electric cars. But while they’re great at holding charge and have a high energy density, lithium-ion batteries aren’t without their problems. Their reliance on toxic, flammable materials means the smallest defect can result in exploding gadgets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:19

The FDA Announces Two More Antacid Recalls Due to...

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2020/01/13

That burning feeling in your chest after you eat a heavy meal could be heartburn. Or it could be worry over the drugs you’ve taken to treat that heartburn. Among the top medical stories of 2019 was the discovery of contaminants in common medicines, and ranitidine—best known as Zantac—took up a large share of those headlines. A cancer-causing substance known as NDMA has been repeatedly found in one of the most popular antacid drugs in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:48

Wildfires Are Obliterating Australia's Iconic Ecosystems

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2020/01/10

Australians haven’t seen anything like the bushfires currently tearing through their country. The conflagrations are obliterating landscapes and their ecosystems, reshaping the continent in irreparable ways. Bushfires aren’t supposed to behave like this. In a normal world, every so often a lightning-sparked fire will roll through a landscape, clearing away old foliage to make way for the new. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:29

Does Dark Energy Really Exist? Cosmologists Battle It...

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2020/01/09

Dark energy, mysterious as it sounds, has become part of the furniture in cosmology. The evidence that this repulsive energy infuses space has stacked up since 1998. That was the year astronomers first discovered that the expansion of the universe has been speeding up over time, with dark energy acting as the accelerator. As space expands, new space arises, and with it more of this repulsive energy, causing space to expand even faster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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