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Science, Spoken

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3:50

A Rocket-Launching Plane, Nintendo's New Switch, and...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/18

Virgin Orbit is dropping rockets out of a Boeing 747, Nintendo is switching up the Switch, and a new design could make the middle plane seat tolerable. 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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14:01

Trees Emit a Surprisingly Large Amount of Methane

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/17

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are many mysteries in the Amazon. Until recently, one of the most troubling was the vast methane emissions emerging from the rainforest that were observed by satellites but that nobody could find on the ground. Around 20 million tons was simply unaccounted for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:28

Tropical Storm Barry Pits New Orleans Against...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/16

If all does not go well this weekend, Tropical Storm Barry will spin into the city of New Orleans, bringing with it (according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) life-threatening storm surge, 40 mile-per-hour winds, and perhaps as much as 25 inches of rain. Barry is a lumbering brute; forecasters expect it to linger. Early coverage of the oncoming storm has focused, understandably, on the seemingly tenuous state of the levees alongside the Mississippi River. Learn more about

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7:48

How Phone Taps and Swipes Train Us to Be Better...

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2019/07/16

In February, leaked software code predicted the demise of the back button on the latest version of Google's Android smartphone. Apple did away with the iPhone's home button in 2017. LG’s latest handset allows users to control their devices without touching them at all. Now, we scroll, swipe, and tap. Soon, we may never again need to hit a button on our phones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:20

Why Dogs Now Play a Big Role in Human Cancer Research

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/15

The Cancer Moonshot initiative, launched under the Obama administration, was audacious by design: Supercharge cancer research to encourage innovation, with the mission “to end to cancer as we know it.” Cancer researchers avoid using the word “cure.” From studying cancer at the molecular level, they know that tumors are complex—even personalized. There’s no simple cancer and no single cure. So, no single destination for a “moonshot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:36

Virgin Orbit Just Dropped a Rocket From a Boeing 747

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/12

On Wednesday morning, a rather unusual plane could be seen flying high over Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. Unlike the military aircraft endemic to the area, this was a modified Boeing 747 jumbo jet, its bright red tail emblazoned with a single word: VIRGIN. A 70-foot rocket was strapped beneath its left wing and about 30 minutes after takeoff, jet pilot Kelly Latimer released the rocket and sent it careening to the desert floor 35,000 feet below. Learn more about your ad choices

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10:48

NASA Needs to Out-Crazy Elon Musk

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/10

On July 20, I will celebrate the 50thanniversary of NASA’s moon landing with my mother, an astronomer at Princeton University and the former chief scientist of NASA’s Space Telescope Science Institute. Our family’s ties to NASA run deep. My father, also an astronomer, helped start the Hubble Space Telescope program and protected it over the years from Congressional budget-cutters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:20

The Meat-Allergy Tick Also Carries a Mystery Killer...

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2019/07/10

On May 31, 2017, 58-year-old Tamela Wilson checked into Barnes-Jewish Hospital, in St. Louis, with a fever, fatigue, and a strange red rash. She’d been undergoing chemotherapy to treat a relapsing lymphoma, but this exhaustion wasn’t just the cancer or the drugs. She told the doctors she worked at nearby Meramec State Park, tending to its miles of trails through forested river bluffs. And that while there, a week before her symptoms started, she found two ticks burrowed into her body. Learn more

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8:28

The Colorful Science of Why Fireworks Look Bad on TV

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/09

Maybe you figure that 60-inch 4K TV you just bought gives you a good excuse to never leave the house. All the entertainment you could ever need gets caught in its internet-enabled gravity well, orbits your streaming services a few times, and then, thwoomp! Into your eyeballs comes the sweet dopamine hit of fun. But you are being deceived. Color televisions show color, sure—but not real, accurate, bold-as-life, wonderful-world-of color. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:12

An Itty-Bitty Robot That Lifts Off Like a Sci-Fi...

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2019/07/05

Credit where credit is due: Evolution has invented a galaxy of clever adaptations, from fish that swim up sea cucumber butts and eat their gonads, to parasites that mind-control their hosts in wildly complex ways. But it’s never dreamed up ion propulsion, a fantastical new way to power robots by accelerating ions instead of burning fuel or spinning rotors. The technology is in very early development, but it could lead to machines that fly like nothing that’s come before them. Learn more about your

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7:22

How Extreme Heat Overwhelms Your Body and Becomes Deadly

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2019/07/04

The heat wave that scorched Europe last week felt like a red alert of climate change. Death Valley was cooler than southern France, where temperatures reached a record-breaking 114.6 degrees Fahrenheit. But as the heat broke and returned to relatively temperate 80s, another forewarning emerged. Civilizations need to adapt and protect themselves from extreme heat. More than anyone, the French are aware of just how deadly extreme heat can be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:28

The Debates Will Be About Climate—Disguised as Other...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/03

Shhhhh. Don’t tell anyone, but Jay Inslee is going to get a presidential debate focused on climate change. Inslee, the governor of Washington state and one of two dozen candidates vying for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, has been agitating for such a single-topic debate for months. Other candidates have signed onto the idea, and activists within the party have amplified the message. But Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, said nuh-uh. Learn more about your ad

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10:47

Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water

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2019/07/02

This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Some 30 miles north of San Diego, along the Pacific Coast, sits the Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant, the largest effort to turn salt water into fresh water in North America. Each day 100 million gallons of seawater are pushed through semi-permeable membranes to create 50 million gallons of water that is piped to municipal users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:33

NASA Will Send a Helicopter to Hunt for Life on...

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2019/07/02

On Wednesday, NASA announced it will send a spacecraft to the surface of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon and one of the leading candidates for finding extraterrestrial microbial life in our solar system. The Dragonfly mission will involve a small, drone-like rotorcraft lander that will be able to fly in small hops across Titan’s surface, covering more distance during its two-year mission than any planetary rover in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:58

Want Your Kid to Play Pro Soccer? Sign Her Up for...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/01

The Women’s World Cup is in full swing, and today the Americans will face off against France in a battle to advance to the semifinals. This year’s American team is a strong one, both in personality (they are currently engaged in an equal-pay dispute with the US Soccer Federation) and in style—they started the tournament with a 13-0 rout over Thailand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:42

Senators Try—Again—to Solve the Nuclear Waste Debacle

Science, Spoken ·

2019/07/01

On Thursday senators tackled the radioactive question of the nation's nuclear waste, this time with a new plan to circumvent the hot-potato politics that doomed Yucca Mountain and other proposals. A combination of new legislation that spreads out the nuclear waste burden and perhaps new technology could offer a new way forward. Everyday, the Department of Energy sends $2.2 million to the nation’s electric utilities to store spent nuclear fuel that has nowhere to go. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:28

The Health Effects of Wildfire Smoke May Last a Lifetime

Science, Spoken ·

2019/06/28

When smoke from California’s deadliest wildfire blew into downtown Sacramento last November, daylight blurred into dusk and the city’s air became among the world’s most polluted. The Camp Fire has long since been extinguished, but the health effects from the tiny particulate matter in the smoke, which penetrates into the lungs and ultimately into the bloodstream, could linger for years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:53

What Could Possibly Be Cooler Than RoboBee? RoboBee...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/06/27

They used to call it RoboBee—a flying machine half the size of a paperclip that could flap its pair of wings 120 times a second. It was always tethered to a power source, limiting its freedom. Now, though, RoboBee becomes RoboBee X-Wing, as Harvard researchers have added solar cells and an extra pair of wings, freeing the robot to blast off to a galaxy far, far away. Or at least partway across the room, as it can only sustain flight for half a second at the moment, and only indoors. Learn more about

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11:07

A New Kind of Space Camp Teaches the Art of Martian...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/06/27

Ben Easter was delighted with the way his students were performing. He was especially delighted that a husband had just voted to kill his wife. The couple were both enrolled in the Martian Medical Analogue and Research Simulation, a continuing-education course for medical professionals who wanted to learn about health care in space by pretending to practice medicine in pretend space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:57

Fitted With Sensors, Antarctic Seals Track Water...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/06/26

On a rocky island just off the coast of West Antarctica, ecologist Lars Boehme is standing face-to-face with a 1,500-pound elephant seal, eyeing the animal’s bulbous nose and jowls to see if he’s finished shedding his fur. When the seal opens his mouth wide to bellow, Boehme waves his hand in front of his face like he’s just smelled something foul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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