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Science, Spoken

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8:55

The Enduring Power of Asperger's, Even as a...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/11/14

Sixteen-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg is the symbol of a climate change generation gap, a girl rebuking adults for their inaction in preventing a future apocalypse. Thunberg’s riveting speech at the UN's Climate Action Summit has been viewed more than 2 million times on YouTube, and she was considered a viable contender for the Nobel Peace Prize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:19

A Scientist's Tiny Black Hole Brings the Cosmos Into...

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2019/11/14

Inside his lab in Israel, Jeff Steinhauer crafts microscopic black holes. These objects are but humble specks, lacking the spaghettifying suction strength of an actual dead star. But Steinhauer, a physicist at the research university Technion, assures me that he’s constructed them mathematically to scale. Zoom in far enough, and you’ll see a miniature event horizon restaging the drama of a true black hole. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:52

Adam Savage on Juggling and How Obsession Makes You...

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2019/11/13

What sort of noise would juggling pins make if they fell three stories off a roof onto the pavement below? For a moment, it seems as if the adults and children gathered for the WIRED 25 Festival atop San Francisco’s Commonwealth Club will find out. But Adam Savage, tossing the three blue, white, and silver pins into the air over and over again, keeps his distance from the roof’s edge and his juggling on point. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:18

A Baby Fish Crisis, the Terrible Microsoft Surface...

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2019/11/13

Fish are dying and Surface users are crying, but first: a cartoon about a modern-day death wish. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:21

Baby Fish Feast on Microplastics, and Then Get Eaten

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2019/11/12

Teeming off Hawaii’s famous beaches is a complex web of life—sharks, turtles, seabirds—that relies enormously on tiny larval fish, the food for many species. In their first few weeks of existence the larvae are at the mercy of currents, still too puny to get around on their own, gathering by their millions in surface “slicks” where currents meet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:20

Aerial Scans Help Bust California's Worst Methane...

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2019/11/12

The air above Earth—especially above California, United States, Earth—might have way more of one particular climate-changing gas in it than anyone thought. And that could actually be good news. The gas is methane, CH4, the main component of natural gas—also a frequent byproduct of oil drilling, agriculture, animal husbandry, garbage decomposition, and farts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:59

Icelandic Walruses May Have Been Early Victims of...

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2019/11/11

There are no walruses in Iceland, but, at one time, there were hundreds. The timing of the walruses' disappearance suggests that the population's loss may be one of the earliest known examples of humans driving a marine species to local extinction. The Ghost of Walruses Past Walruses used to be a major feature of life in Iceland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:17

FDA Permits the Sale of a New Smoking Device. Is It...

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2019/11/11

Not quite an e-cigarette and not the old paper kind either, the Iqos is the latest controversial device to enter the vaping wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:24

This Martini Wants to Kill Climate Change One Sip at...

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2019/11/08

In 2017, Stafford Sheehan was a chemist working on artificial photosynthesis, coming up with metal-based catalysts that’d mimic the way living things acquire energy from the Sun. He did not expect to create a martini that could save the planet. Sheehan had an invention, a box that could electrolyze a burst of carbon dioxide and a dose of water. Run all that over a metal catalyst to goose a biochemical reaction, and, presto: renewable fuel made from air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:21

SpaceX and Boeing Still Need a Parachute That Always...

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2019/11/08

On Monday, a small capsule launched off its test stand at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, reaching speeds of more than 600 mph in just seconds. The spacecraft was Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule, which will begin carrying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station next year. Later this week, SpaceX will also perform a test of its Crew Dragon capsule, a second try after a catastrophic explosion ended a similar trial run earlier this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:42

Do We Need a Special Language to Talk to Aliens?

Science, Spoken ·

2019/11/07

In May 2018, a radar facility in Tromsø, Norway trained its antennas on GJ237b, a potentially habitable exoplanet located 12 light years from Earth. Over the course of three days, the radar broadcast a message toward the planet in the hopes that there might be something, or someone, there to receive it. Each message consisted of a selection of short songs and a primer on how to interpret the contents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:34

If You Want a Robot to Learn Better, Be a Jerk to It

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2019/11/07

In what will go down as one of the greatest robotics experiments ever, a few years back researchers in Japan let a robot loose in a mall and watched how kids reacted. Far from the sense of wonder you might expect from children, the mood soured into a sense of concern for the next generation, as the kids proceeded to kick and punch the robot and call it names. Call it unconstructive criticism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:19

The Delicate Art—and Evolving Science—of Wildfire...

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2019/11/06

On the evening of October 23, in the middle of the kind of dry, windy night that has become more frequent and more terrifying in recent California autumns, a fire began outside the small unincorporated Northern California town of Geyserville. Over the next two days, as winds reached hurricane-like strength, they carried the fire south, burning some 75,000 acres and threatening some 90,000 structures as of Wednesday afternoon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:11

Trump Can Now Exit the Paris Accord. It's Still a Bad...

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2019/11/06

When President Trump visited Pittsburgh last month, he complained about how the Paris climate treaty was unfair to the United States. “I withdrew the United States from the terrible, one-sided climate accord, it was a total disaster for our country,” Trump told a cheering crowd at a natural gas conference. “They were taking away our wealth. It was almost as though it was meant to hurt the competitiveness—really, competitiveness of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:25

Where Do Hippos Wander? An Aquatic Mystery, Solved

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2019/11/05

It’d be tough to mistake a hippo for a sensitive type. Weighing more than a Honda Accord and packing massive incisors, it’s one of the most dangerous animals on Earth. But in reality it’s far more vulnerable than it lets on: Habitat loss, climate change, and rampant water extraction are all threatening the African rivers the hippo calls home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:12

Here’s What Happens When You Leave Weed Up Your Nose...

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2019/11/05

Nose pickers are often said to be digging for gold. But a 48-year-old Australian man needed an entirely different kind of nugget mined from his schnoz. Doctors excavated from the man's right nasal cavity a 19 mm by 11 mm rock-hard mass—the calcified remains of a small amount of marijuana he tried to smuggle into prison a startling 18 years earlier. ARS TECHNICA This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for technology news, tech policy analysis, reviews, and more. Learn more

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10:31

How the Measles Virus Induces ‘Immune Amnesia’

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2019/11/04

In the summer of 1907, a German doctor named Clemens von Pirquet noticed something strange with one of his patients. The five-year-old boy had previously tested positive for tuberculosis. The test involved injecting a tiny bit of TB protein just under the skin. His antibodies recognized it, activating immune cells which formed a little bump at the injection site. This happens to anyone who has ever been infected with TB. But when Pirquet performed the same test on the boy a second time, no

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5:36

Bees, Please: Stop Dying in Your Martian Simulator

Science, Spoken ·

2019/11/04

Before astronauts head to the International Space Station, they spend years getting ready: They float in pools to practice for spacewalks, learn how to run different types of science experiments, and even practice how to poop. For future missions to the moon and Mars, scientists first try living and working in space-analog environments on volcanoes, deep inside caves, at the South Pole, and even underwater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:59

Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the...

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2019/11/01

Laura Lewis and her team of researchers have been putting in late nights in their Boston University lab. Lewis ran tests until around three in the morning, then ended up sleeping in the next day. It was like she had jet lag, she says, without changing time zones. It’s not that Lewis doesn’t appreciate the merits of a good night’s sleep. She does. But when you’re trying to map what’s happening in a slumbering human’s brain, you end up making some sacrifices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:40

NASA is Getting Serious About an Interstellar Mission

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2019/11/01

Interstellar space exploration has long been the stuff of science fiction, a technological challenge that many engineers believe humans just aren’t up to yet. But an ongoing study by a group of NASA-affiliated researchers is challenging this assumption. The researchers have a vision for a mission that could be built with existing technology. Indeed, the group says that if their mission is selected by NASA it could fly as soon as 2030. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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