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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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4:59

Scientists Take Baby Steps Toward Extraterrestrial...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/31

In February, the Spanish pilot Daniel González climbed into a small aerobatic plane at the Sabadell Airport outside Barcelona and fired up its single prop engine. Once he was in the air, González began a steep climb for about six seconds before entering a nosedive. The plane’s rapid descent created a microgravity environment in the cockpit and for a few seconds, González felt what it was like to be an astronaut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:58

Technology Will Keep Us From Running Out of Stuff

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/31

Thirty years from now, we’ll need to feed, clothe, shelter, and otherwise provide for 2 billion more people. Human-caused global warming is going to make these tasks challenging as it produces more deserts, droughts, heatwaves, and other stresses. Even so, I believe we’ll easily meet our challenges and take better care of the people who inhabit the world of the future, without experiencing sustained shortages of food or other important resources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:23

California’s Wildfires Are the Doom of Our Own Making

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/30

Every generation claims an event that defines it more than any other—winning a World War, or landing humans on the moon, or tearing down the Berlin Wall. But at this very moment, we have the dubious honor of living through an event whose impact will span generations: climate change. Never before has our kind faced such omnipresent peril, from supercharged storms to rising seas to drought to crop failure to biodiversity crises. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:22

We Should Just Build Giant Telescopes ... in Space

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/30

In 2021, a rocket is scheduled to lift off from French Guiana carrying the largest space telescope ever made. Known as the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers will use this beast of an observatory to study everything from habitable exoplanets to the formation of the first galaxies. JWST is the first mega-telescope of its kind to ever launch into space—and it may also be the last. The next behemoth might instead get assembled in space with the help of robots. Learn more about your ad choices

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4:49

A Secret Space Plane Just Landed After a Record Stay...

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2019/10/29

The old space shuttle landing facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center received an unusual visitor early Sunday morning when the Air Force’s secretive X-37B space plane autonomously returned from orbit after a record-breaking mission. For the last 780 days, the Air Force Research Laboratory used the space plane as an orbital platform for classified experiments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:06

Ocean Cleanup’s New Plastic-Catcher … Kinda Already...

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2019/10/29

A little over a year ago, a group called The Ocean Cleanup launched an unprecedented campaign to rid the seas of plastic, complete with an unprecedented device: a 600-meter-long, U-shaped tube that was meant to passively gather debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for a ship to come along and scoop up and take back to land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:01

Kincade Fire: The Age of Flames Is Consuming California

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/28

Right on cue, Northern California has plunged back into wildfire hell. This time two years ago, the Tubbs Fire was ripping through Santa Rosa and other communities north of San Francisco, killing 22 and destroying 5,000 homes. And last year on November 8, the Camp Fire virtually obliterated the town of Paradise, killing 86 and burning an astonishing 20,000 structures to the ground. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:47

Can We Plant 20 Million Trees for 2020? The Math Says...

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2019/10/28

There's a lot of power in a rough estimate. If you’re trying to figure out whether something is worth doing, you could really go deep into the weeds trying to capture all the costs and benefits. But here’s the thing: Usually you don’t need an exact answer in order to make the right decision. For example, say you’re having a big party, a hundred people, and you want to make special decorated cupcakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:50

The Most Diabolical Race and the Rise of Women...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/25

On Monday evening, Maggie Guterl and Will Hayward set out for the 60th time on a four-mile loop through the hickory-covered hills of central Tennessee. It was dark and rainy on day three of the Big’s Backyard Ultra, a running race of fiendish design. There's no set distance, and no set total time, just endless laps around a four-mile course, which participants must complete once an hour. To win, you basically just have to be the last competitor still moving your legs. Learn more about your ad

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9:37

Why Did Oklahoma’s Sooner Schooner Tip Over?

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/25

College football is all about traditions, and most schools have some signature thing they do at games. Mississippi State has the headache-inducing din of cowbells. Arkansas fans summon their team to the field with a hog call. “Woooo Pig Soooie!” The Oklahoma Sooners have the Sooner Schooner. It's a little covered wagon pulled by a pair of enthusiastic ponies—you know, a prairie schooner—that careens onto the field whenever the home team scores. It’s pretty exciting. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:00

NASA Wants to Send a Probe to the Hellish Surface of...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/24

With all the talk about sending humans to the moon and eventually Mars, it can be easy to forget there are other planets worth exploring. But a team of researchers at NASA has set its sights on Venus, Earth’s closest neighbor and one of the least understood planets in the solar system. Since the first (crash) landing on Venus in 1966, by a Soviet probe, spacecraft have only survived a total of a few hours on the planet’s surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:39

NASA's New Space Suits Will Fit Men and Women Alike...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/24

When NASA designed its first space suits, they were tailored to fit the all-male crews who flew in the early 1960s and landed on the moon in 1969. But as NASA has become a more diverse agency, both in space and on the ground, the limitations of its suits have become a growing source of embarrassment. Since the final Moon mission in 1972, more than 40 American women have flown on the space shuttle or spent time on the International Space Station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:16

The Bizarre Aye-Aye Isn’t Giving Us the Finger After All

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/23

If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger to tap along hollow tree branches, listens for grubs within, gnaws a hole in the wood, and reaches that middle finger inside to fish out the food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:43

Scientists Are Literally Spinning Up Lab-Grown Meat

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/23

When Cypher is selling out his compatriots over dinner with Agent Smith in The Matrix, he muses: “I know this steak doesn’t exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.” In a simulation like the Matrix, ones and zeroes represent every nuance of that steak—the texture, the smell, the flavor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:03

Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor by 2027. Good...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/22

Presidential candidates are in the business of making big promises, and few of the Democratic contenders for the 2020 nomination have promised more than Andrew Yang. An entrepreneur turned politico, Yang has styled himself as the techie’s candidate. His platform is defined by its embrace of high-tech solutions for a variety of social problems and earned him endorsements from Silicon Valley heavyweights like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jack Dorsey. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:06

A New Crispr Technique Could Fix Almost All Genetic...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/22

Andrew Anzalone was restless. It was late fall, 2017. The year was winding down, and so was his MD/PhD program at Columbia. Trying to figure out what was next in his life, he’d taken to long, leaf-strewn walks in the West Village. One night as he paced up Hudson Street, his stomach filled with La Colombe coffee and his mind with Crispr gene editing papers, an idea began to bubble through the caffeine brume inside his brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:04

How Chaos Will Unfold if Trump Opens the Tongass to...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/21

The Trump administration this week proposed ending the so-called Roadless Rule, which banned logging, development, and road construction in Alaska’s Tongass, the biggest national forest in the US. If the USDA Forest Service has its way, it would “remove all 9.2 million acres of inventoried roadless acres and would convert 165,000 old-growth acres and 20,000 young-growth acres previously identified as unsuitable timber lands to suitable timber lands. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:06

All Hail the Blob, the Smart Slime Mold Confounding...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/10/21

It’s official: Humans are canceled. If we’re not intent on slowly destroying the planet, then we’re getting busy being downright nasty to each other online. But in a world increasingly devoid of human role models, there are some unlikely sources of inspiration out there. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Enter The Blob—a yellowish chunk of slime mold set to make its debut at the Paris Zoological Park on Saturday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:06

The NFL's Helmet Tests Are Brainless

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2019/10/18

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7:58

Ethnobotanists have a new theory on which plant the...

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2019/09/25

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