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7:51

Crispr Gene Editing Is Coming for the Womb

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/18

William Peranteau is the guy parents call when they’ve received the kind of bad news that sinks stomachs and wrenches hearts. Sometimes it’s a shadow on an ultrasound or a few base pairs out of place on a prenatal genetic test, revealing that an unborn child has a life-threatening developmental defect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:37

A Shocking Find Shows Just How Far Wind Can Carry...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/18

At the top of the French Pyrenees, not far from the border with Spain, is a virtually pristine clearing, home to snow and a weather station—but mostly feet upon feet of snow. The nearest road closes in the winter. The most substantial town within 60 miles tallies just 9,000 people. Look closely at the landscape, though, and you’ll see the place is covered in plastic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:45

The Notre Dame Fire and the Future of History

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2019/04/17

Some of the wood that burned in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on Monday was put in place in the year 1160. The beams and exterior of the roof over the nave, the long main section of the building, date from between 1220 and 1240. Nearly a millennium ago it was forest; today, after a catastrophe that cuts to the heart of French culture and human history, it’s ash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:42

First Big Survey of Births Finds Millions of Missing...

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2019/04/16

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5:36

SpaceX Lands All 3 Boosters of the World's Most...

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2019/04/16

The Falcon Heavy rocket is many things, but “timely” is not one of them. Delay after delay have plagued its development. And this week, the same fate befell its launch schedule. Originally planned to liftoff last Sunday, the Falcon Heavy’s first commercial launch was thrice delayed due to unfavorable weather conditions before it finally left launchpad 39-A at Kennedy Space Center today. The wait was worth it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:39

Researchers Want to Link Your Genes and Income—Should...

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2019/04/15

The UK Biobank is the single largest public genetic repository in the world, with samples of the genetic blueprints of half a million Brits standing by for scientific study. But when David Hill, a statistical geneticist at the University of Edinburgh, went poring through that data, he wasn’t looking for a cure for cancer or deeper insights into the biology of aging. Nothing like that. He was trying to figure out why some people make more money than others. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:53

Lasers Highlight Ketamine's Depression-Fighting Secrets

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/12

Last month, the FDA approved esketamine, the nose spray version of ketamine, for treatment-resistant depression. You probably know by now that ketamine is a party drug, but it actually finds far wider use as an anesthetic on the World Health Organization’s list of Essential Medicines. Scientists have a good idea of how exactly it brings about its anesthetic charms, on account of it interacting with certain receptors in the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:25

How the Boston Marathon Messes With Runners to Slow...

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2019/04/11

The Boston Marathon course looks like it should be fast. You start out in the distant suburb of Hopkinton—elevation 490 feet above sea level—and then cruise steadily downhill until about mile 9. The finish line has an elevation of a mere 10 feet above Boston Harbor. Fans pack the sides cheering you on. The route is pretty straight, west to east, with few 90-degree turns of the sort that slow your momentum. The road is asphalt, which is more forgiving than concrete. Learn more about your ad choices

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8:41

New York's Vaccine Order Shows How Health Laws Are...

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2019/04/11

On Monday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came out with its latest measles numbers, and let’s be honest, they weren’t great. At least 465 cases across 19 states have been reported nationwide so far this year, including 78 in the last week alone. Nationwide, that means more people have caught the notoriously contagious disease in the past three and a half months than all of last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:40

Sea Levels Are Rising. Time to Build ... Floating...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/10

With sea levels expected to rise at least 26 inches by the end of the century due to human-driven climate change, to say that we have a problem is something of an understatement. By the middle of the next century, many of the world’s major cities will be flooded and in some cases, entire island nations will be underwater. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:25

The Plan to Save the Rhino With a Cervix-Navigating...

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2019/04/09

The duck is famous for two things: really liking bread (even though they’re not supposed to be eating it), and wielding insanely complicated reproductive bits. More specifically, male ducks have corkscrew-shaped penises, while females’ reproductive tracts corkscrew in the opposite direction. It’s a disturbing consequence of an evolutionary arms race, the females’ countermeasure to notoriously aggressive males. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:03

Two Unusual Galaxies Shake Up the Dark Matter Debate,...

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2019/04/09

When it comes to the nature of dark matter astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of this mysterious substance was hypothesized more than forty years ago to explain discrepancies in the calculations of how galaxies ought to behave, based on their mass, and what was actually observed. In short, it seemed like mass was missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:34

Machine Learning for March Madness Is a Competition...

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2019/04/08

This year, 47 million Americans will spend an estimated $8.5 billion betting on the outcome of the NCAA basketball championships, a cultural ritual appropriately known as March Madness. Before the tournament starts, anyone who wants to place a bet must fill out a bracket, which holds their predictions for each of the 63 championship games. The winner of a betting pool is the one whose bracket most closely mirrors the results of the championship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:53

This Tiny Guillotine Decapitates Mosquitoes to Fight...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/08

The idea behind the guillotine is this: If you’re going to execute someone, you may as well do it efficiently and humanely, at least by 18th-century standards. Decapitating the condemned with an ax or sword may take a few swings—unacceptable for carrying out justice in a "civilized" society. The guillotine, on the other hand, is downright surgical, a perversely methodical way to end a life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:49

AI Could Scan IVF Embryos to Help Make Babies More...

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2019/04/05

If a woman (or non-female identifying person with a uterus and visions of starting a family) is struggling to conceive and decides to improve their reproductive odds at an IVF clinic, they’ll likely interact with a doctor, a nurse, and a receptionist. They will probably never meet the army of trained embryologists working behind closed lab doors to collect eggs, fertilize them, and develop the embryos bound for implantation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:43

Scientists Need More Cat DNA, and Lil Bub Is Here to...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/04

Like most people, Daniel Ibrahim remembers exactly where he was the first time he came across a tiny, bug-eyed, toothless, limp-tongued cat called Lil Bub, the internet-breaking Queen of Cute. It was September 2014, during a mild night in Berlin, when the molecular geneticist found himself watching a Vice documentary on social media-famous felines by the blue light of his computer. But unlike most people, Ibrahim’s next move wasn’t to buy a Lil Bub shirt or join the ranks of her 2. Learn more about

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5:29

By 2080, Tropical Diseases Could Be Headed to Alaska

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/03

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nearly a billion people could be newly at risk of tropical diseases like dengue fever and Zika as climate change shifts the range of mosquitoes, according to a new study. Since the life cycle of mosquitoes is temperature sensitive, scientists have long been concerned about how their prevalence might spread as the world continues to warm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:53

Data Centers Gobble Energy. Could a ‘Fossil-Free’...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/02

As a shopper, you can chose from labels touting a product’s chemical-free nature (Certified Organic), genetic makeup (Non-GMO), and effect on tropical ecosystems (Shade Grown). Now you could start to encounter a label that certifies that your daily internet traffic is sustainable as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:47

The Fungi Decimating Amphibians Is Worse Than We Thought

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2019/04/02

For nearly 400 million years, amphibians have led a highly successful double life on Earth, foraging on terra and reproducing in water. They survived the extinction of the dinosaurs and any number of other worldwide catastrophes, but they’ve never seen a catastrophe quite like humanity. Already stressed by habitat degradation and the wildlife trade, amphibians are now reckoning with the chytrid fungi, pathogens that humans have spread the world over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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3:12

A Human-Spread Fungus Is Killing Amphibians, and More...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/04/01

Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: Humans are ruining everything for amphibians Amphibians may have survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, and all kinds of other catastrophes, but a fungi that humans helped spread is doing damage. Serious damage. More than 500 species of amphibians are experiencing decline because of chytrid fungi, which infects an amphibian’s skin and disrupts its ability to breathe and absorb water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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