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Science, Spoken

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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12:12

Science Explains Why We Should All Work Shorter Hours...

Science, Spoken ·

2020/01/08

For many of us, winter, with its chilly days and long nights, brings with it a general sense of malaise. It’s harder to peel ourselves out of bed in the half-light of morning, and hunched over our desks at work, we can feel our productivity draining away with the remnants of the afternoon sun. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:56

How the Extreme Art of Dropping Stuff Could Upend...

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2020/01/07

Babies love it, and Galileo supposedly tried it: Drop some objects from on high, and see how fast they fall. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, all objects in Earth’s gravity, regardless of mass, should descend at the same rate in the absence of air resistance. But there are plenty of reasons to believe this might not be true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:44

Whales Help Explain the Evolutionary Mystery of...

Science, Spoken ·

2020/01/06

There's a rare human trait that doesn't often make it into debates about what makes our species unique: menopause. Humans are among just a handful of species where females stop reproducing decades before the end of their lifespan. In evolutionary terms, menopause is intriguing: how could it be advantageous for reproductive ability to end before an individual's life is over? One possible answer: the power of the grandma's guidance and aid to her grandchildren. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:24

Now Entering Orbit: Tiny Lego-like Modular Satellites

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2020/01/03

Just about a year ago, SpaceX sent the rocketry equivalent of a clown car to space: A rocket crowded with more than 60 small satellites. Inside one of them, Excite, were even more. It was actually a satellite made of other satellites, all clones of each other, all capable of joining together and working together. It was one of the first in-space tests of such a contraption—but in the coming years, this modular approach is likely to show up on more and more missions. Learn more about your ad choices

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11:57

It's Not Just You—Wild Swings in Extreme Weather Are...

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2020/01/02

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From 2011 to 2016, California experienced five years of extreme drought, during which numerous high temperature records were broken. These hot, dry years were followed by the extremely wet winter of 2016 -2017, when, from October to March, an average of 31 inches of rain fell across the state, the second highest winter rainfall on record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:32

This Cave Contains the Oldest Story Ever Recorded

Science, Spoken ·

2020/01/01

At this very moment, you're a participant in one of the things that makes us human: the telling and consumption of stories. It's impossible to say when our species began telling each other stories—or when we first evolved the ability to use language to communicate not only simple, practical concepts but to share vivid accounts of events real or imagined. But by 43,900 years ago, people on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi had started painting some of their stories in images on cave walls. Learn more

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9:58

Giant Surveillance Balloons Are Lurking at the Edge...

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2019/12/31

It’s a brisk December morning at Spaceport Tucson, America’s premiere (only?) dedicated launch pad for stratospheric balloons, and a small army of technicians in reflective vests is milling around on the concrete and dethawing after a long, cold night. Nearby, a white metal tripod the size of a smart car is tethered to two dozen solar panels and hundreds of feet of clear plastic that stretches across the pad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:03

We Might Not Be Planting the Right Kinds of Forests

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2019/12/30

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When most people conjure a forest, they imagine a dense network of trees, their crowns arching high above, with spots of sunshine flashing between the leaves. Some might also think of birdsong and insects, or summon thoughts of thick foliage in the understory, the crunch of leaves or pine needles underfoot, or overgrown trails meandering into the thicket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:15

WIRED's 7 Big Science Stories That Shaped 2019

Science, Spoken ·

2019/12/27

The practice of science is about progress: Crafting knowledge out of hunches and experiments, finding life-saving remedies, informing sound policies. It doesn't always go as planned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:35

Got the Flu? These Doctors Really Want to See...

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2019/12/26

Flu season is good for no one. The infection kills thousands of people every year, while many more spend days suffering in bed. Kids get infected. Then the virus flattens the parents who stay home with them. Even dogs are laid low. Except there is one entity that kinda loves the flu. Telemedicine companies are hoping to use the annual scourge as a lure for new customers. When the days get shorter and the germs run rampant, they start to see more users checking out their services. Learn more about

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6:54

Acidifying Oceans Could Eat Away at Sharks' Skin and...

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2019/12/25

For hundreds of millions of years, sharks have been roaming Earth’s oceans making meals out of a huge range of critters, from the whale shark gobbling up tiny krill to the 60-foot megalodon that could take down whales. Their ancestral line has survived mass extinctions with ease, most notably the catastrophe that took down the dinosaurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:50

New Tests Use Epigenetics to Guess How Fast You're Aging

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2019/12/24

From the beginning of time, humankind has searched for the secret to a long life. Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury. The pattern of chemical chains that attach to the DNA in your cells—on-off switches known as epigenetic markers—can reveal how swiftly you are aging, and perhaps even how much longer you will live. While genetic testing might tell you where you came from, epigenetics promises a glimpse into the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:20

What a 5,700-Year-Old Piece of Gum Reveals About Its...

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2019/12/23

Nearly 6,000 years ago, in a seaside marshland in what is now southern Denmark, a woman with blue eyes and dark hair and skin popped a piece of chewing gum in her mouth. Not spearmint gum, mind you, but a decidedly less palatable chunk of black-brown pitch, boiled down from the bark of the birch tree. An indispensable tool in her time, birch pitch would solidify as it cooled, so the woman and her comrades would have had to chew it before using it as a sort of superglue for, say, making tools. Learn

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7:52

Traveling for the Holidays? Here's How to Not Get Sick

Science, Spoken ·

2019/12/20

There’s a cruel irony in the fact that holiday travel tends to coincide with the rise of flu season. Yet more than 47 million Americans are preparing to sit for hours inside a tube in the sky, perhaps near someone with a hacking cough. It sounds like the perfect (infectious) storm. But reaching your destination without collecting microbial stowaways isn’t as daunting as it seems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:58

Mathematician Terence Tao Cracks a ‘Dangerous’ Problem

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2019/12/19

Experienced mathematicians warn up-and-comers to stay away from the Collatz conjecture. It’s a siren song, they say: Fall under its trance and you may never do meaningful work again. The Collatz conjecture is quite possibly the simplest unsolved problem in mathematics—which is exactly what makes it so treacherously alluring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:50

Nature Deserves Legal Rights—and the Power to Fight Back

Science, Spoken ·

2019/12/18

In the summer of 2014, Markie Miller discovered she'd been drinking toxic coffee. Miller lives in Toledo, Ohio, where fertilizer runoff from farms had caused blooms of toxic cyanobacteria in Lake Erie, her water supply. The city issued an alert at 2 am, but by the time Miller saw it she'd already been sipping her morning java. “I'm like, shit, what did I just expose myself to?” she says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:52

Forget Earth: In Space, Libertarian Ideas Are Thriving

Science, Spoken ·

2019/12/17

You may have heard the phrase “There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch,” perhaps in conversation with your parents when they wanted you to get a job. Its acronym—TANSTAAFL—pops up in subreddits like r/Anarcho_Capitalism, on sweatshirts from the politically inclined website LibertyManiacs.com, and as a nerdy economics rap on YouTube. Also: For the first eight years of the Libertarian party’s existence, TANSTAAFL was its official slogan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:54

The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer

Science, Spoken ·

2019/12/16

For the last 20 years, the future of nuclear power has stood in a high bay laboratory tucked away on the Oregon State University campus in the western part of the state. Operated by NuScale Power, an Oregon-based energy startup, this prototype reactor represents a new chapter in the conflict-ridden, politically bedeviled saga of nuclear power plants. NuScale’s reactor won’t need massive cooling towers or sprawling emergency zones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:07

Scientists Find a Weak Spot in Some Superbugs' Defenses

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2019/12/13

In 2004, a 64-year-old woman in Indiana had a catheter put in to help with dialysis. Soon after the procedure, she came to a local hospital with low blood pressure and what turned out to be a dangerous antibiotic-resistant infection from a bacteria called Enterococcus faecalis. Today, that woman’s blood samples helped solve a long-standing mystery: how this deadly bacteria neutralizes the most powerful antibiotic used to fight it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:21

Melting Ski Resorts Have a Snow Machine Problem

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2019/12/12

In late October, the snow elves—that is to say, employees—of the Zermatt Bergbahnen AG ski area in Switzerland fire up their secret weapon: a 30-ton snow-generating goliath known as Snowmaker. For 20 days straight it runs around the clock, churning out 1,900 tons of snow per day. That snow is then ferried up the mountain on vehicles with caterpillar tracks called “snow cats.” Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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