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Science, Spoken

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7:47

SpaceX Is Launching 'Organs on a Chip' to the ISS

Science, Spoken ·

2019/05/06

Last month, a journal published an n-of-one experiment of unusual origin. It was the study comparing astronaut Scott Kelly’s physiology to that of his Earthbound identical twin brother, Mark. During his time on the International Space Station, Scott gathered reams of data on his own health and took hundreds of samples of his own stool, urine, and blood, for comparison later to those of Mark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:01

How to Build, and Keep Building, a Cathedral Like...

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2019/05/06

The roof of Notre Dame Cathedral wasn’t just a roof. Sure, it kept the rain out. But what burned away in Paris last April was a technical marvel, the height—literally—of 12th- and 13th-century engineering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:51

A Programmer Solved a 20-Year-Old Forgotten Crypto...

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2019/05/03

In early April, 1999, a time capsule was delivered to the famed architect Frank Gehry with instructions to incorporate it into his designs for the building that would eventually host MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, or CSAIL. The time capsule was essentially a museum of early computer history, containing 50 items contributed by the likes of Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:15

Women May Soon Start Using AI to Tell Good Eggs From Bad

Science, Spoken ·

2019/05/02

Millennials are increasingly making time in their busy schedules to put their eggs on ice. More effective flash-freezing technologies, micro-optimized ad targeting, and a growing willingness among companies to follow Silicon Valley’s lead of including fertility treatments in benefit packages, have made the practice more attractive to would-be parents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:57

These Super-Precise Clocks Help Weave Together Space...

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2019/05/02

The world’s most precise clock sits on a table in Jun Ye’s lab in Boulder, Colorado. A tangle of electronics, fiber optic cables, and laser beams, the clock is still a prototype, so no one actually uses it to tell time. Ye, who is a physicist at the research institute JILA, and his team have demonstrated that the clock can produce a second with precision in the parts per quintillion—that’s 10-19, some hundred billion times more precise than a quartz wristwatch. Learn more about your ad choices

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6:41

The Grid Might Survive an Electromagnetic Pulse Just...

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2019/05/01

Over the past few years, speculation has risen around whether North Korea or any other nation could detonate a nuclear weapon over the United States that would create an electromagnetic pulse, and knock out all electricity for weeks or months. This doomsday hypothesis has been promoted by a former CIA director , a commission set up by Congress, and a book by newsman Ted Koppel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:01

RIP, Anki: Yet Another Home Robotics Company Powers Down

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2019/05/01

Today brings sad news in the world of consumer robotics. Anki, maker of Vector, a toy-like autonomous countertop robot, is shutting down, and hundreds of people are losing their jobs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:06

Meet the Pro-Vaxxers Helping to Stave Off the Next...

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2019/04/30

Ken Haller is 64, but he vividly remembers having measles when he was 7. And mumps when he was 10. And chickenpox when he was 11, which required him to keep socks on his hands so he wouldn’t gouge his skin from scratching. He still has a faint scar on his nose from one pustule he scratched too intensely. Haller is also a pediatrician who has treated babies who developed meningitis from Haemophilus influenzae (now vaccine-preventable) and became blind—or died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:25

Fighting Measles, LA Pulls a Classic Move: Quarantine

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2019/04/30

Hardly anyone actually has measles in Los Angeles (so far; thank goodness). Just five people who passed through the airports, and five residents of the county. Four of those residents are “linked cases,” meaning three got it from one. The problem is, one of those people infected with measles spent some time on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles. Another one spent an afternoon in a library at Cal State LA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:02

The Plan to Grab the World's Carbon With Supercharged...

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2019/04/29

In humanity’s battle against man-made climate change, the earth itself provides one of the most important weapons, a natural system that breathes in earth-warming CO2 and exhales oxygen. Yes, I’m talking about plants, engineered by nature itself over the course of millennia to harness the Earth’s natural conditions to turn sunlight and CO2 into oxygen and organic matter. Plants are the key to many climate change-fighting tactics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:38

The Meteoric Rise of Family Tree Forensics to Fight...

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2019/04/26

Three hundred and sixty six days ago, CeCe Moore woke up to the headline that would change her world: “Suspected Golden State Killer, East Area Rapist arrested after eluding authorities for decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:48

The Machine That Reads Your Mind (Kinda) and Talks...

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2019/04/25

Edward Chang keeps a cybernetic implant at his desk, which seems almost calculatedly cool. Chang is a lean, low-voiced neurosurgeon at UC San Francisco. The cybernetic implant—more properly a Brain-Computer Interface—is a floppy, translucent plastic square about the size of my hand, embedded with a 16-by-16 array of titanium dots, each about the size of a cupcake sprinkle. This part sits on top of a brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:27

What’s Known About the SpaceX Crew Dragon Accident

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2019/04/25

During a series of engine tests of SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft this past Saturday, the vehicle experienced what the company has characterized as an "anomaly." Based upon an unauthorized leaked video of the accident, the company was counting down toward a firing of the Dragon's SuperDraco thrusters when the vehicle exploded. SpaceX has not validated the video, but it is consistent with verbal accounts of the failure that have been shared with Ars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:52

In Automation, the Last Motion Will Come Before the...

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2019/04/24

We talk a lot these days about using robots to manage the problem of the "last mile." Say, getting a package to a doorstep from a local delivery center.Or picking up garbage from a backyard.Or delivering pizza. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Matt Beane is an Assistant Professor of Technology Management at UC Santa Barbara and a Research Affiliate at MIT's Institute for the Digital Economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:41

Offshore Wind Farms Are Spinning Up in the US—At Last

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/24

On June 1, the Pilgrim nuclear plant in Massachusetts will shut down, a victim of rising costs and a technology that is struggling to remain economically viable in the United States. But the electricity generated by the aging nuclear station soon will be replaced by another carbon-free source: a fleet of 84 offshore wind turbines rising nearly 650 feet above the ocean's surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:35

Ancestry.com’s Racist Ad Tumbles Into a Cultural...

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2019/04/23

On Thursday, the world’s largest DNA testing company, Ancestry.com, pulled a video advertisement amid a cascade of criticism on social media. The ad, titled, “Inseparable” and cinematically shot to portray a gauzy, gothic moment on the streets of the Antebellum South, depicted a white man offering a black woman a ring and imploring her to “escape to the north” with him. In the captions, they are referred to as “lovers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:04

AI Could Predict Death. But What If the Algorithm Is...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/23

Earlier this month the University of Nottingham published a study in PloSOne about a new artificial intelligence model that uses machine learning to predict the risk of premature death, using banked health data (on age and lifestyle factors) from Brits aged 40 to 69. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:27

You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/22

The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and workshops and coffee meetings and experiences and demos and late-night trivia contests and networking, networking, networking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:13

New York’s Aggressive Climate Law Takes Aim at...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/22

On Thursday, the New York City Council voted into law a sweeping set of rules to fight climate change, a metropolis-scaled version of a Green New Deal. And if the lawmakers and policy wonks who built the bills have their way, they’ll be a model for cities everywhere to cut carbon emissions and save the planet. The Climate Mobilization Act, an omnibus of a half-dozen bills, takes an aggressive posture to reducing carbon emissions from America’s most populous city. Those 8. Learn more about your ad

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6:45

China Finds Phone-Wielding Tourists and Telescopes...

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2019/04/19

If a giant telescope observes the universe, and no one around can take a picture of it, does it really exist? The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope—located in Guizhou, China—will have to find out. New regulations, put into effect in early April, ban (among other things) cell phones, smart wearables, drones, and digital cameras within 5 kilometers of the dish and impose uncomfortably large fines on those who break the rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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