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Science, Spoken

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25:47

Inside the High-Stakes Race to Make Quantum Computers...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/03/11

Deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border, the Large Hadron Collider is sleeping. But it won’t be quiet for long. Over the coming years, the world’s largest particle accelerator will be supercharged, increasing the number of proton collisions per second by a factor of two and a half. Once the work is complete in 2026, researchers hope to unlock some of the most fundamental questions in the universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:30

The Fish on Your Plate May Not Be What You Ordered

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2019/03/08

This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you eat seafood, even occasionally, there’s a good chance you’ve been served a fish species you didn’t order. A new months-long investigation by ocean advocacy group Oceana finds widespread and persistent fraud in the US seafood industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:04

Oceans Are 'Spiking a Fever' With Record Heat Waves

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2019/03/08

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The number of heat waves affecting the planet’s oceans has increased sharply, scientists have revealed, killing swathes of sea life like “wildfires that take out huge areas of forest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:57

The Gene Mutation That Could Cure HIV Has a Checkered...

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2019/03/07

In the three and a half decades since HIV/AIDS was discovered, the deadly disease has killed 35 million people. While drugs now allow patients to live long lives with the virus, only one man, an American named Timothy Ray Brown, otherwise known as the “Berlin patient,” is believed to have been cured. Now, it appears he’s no longer alone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:55

A New Method of DNA Testing Could Solve More Shootings

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2019/03/06

Police found 19 spent shell casings scattered in the San Diego street where Gregory Benton was murdered on April 12, 2014. Benton and his cousin had gone to buy cigarettes, a witness later said. As they returned to a family party, two men pulled up in a car behind them. They got out, and at least one of them opened fire. Witnesses didn’t get a good look at the men or the car, so when police sat down to review their leads, the shell casings were the best evidence they had. Learn more about your ad

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9:42

Post-Apocalyptic Insurers Try Out a New 'Make it...

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2019/03/06

Friends, have you thought about your insurance lately? [Reader clicks close tab.] Dammit! Wait, no, look: Climate change makes natural catastrophes worse, in both intensity and frequency, and insurance might be a significant way to pay for recovery. International aid can be unreliable; government money really is just taxpayer money. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:49

SpaceX Is Sending Its First Crew-Ready Capsule to the...

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2019/03/04

On Saturday, SpaceX is taking its most ambitious step yet toward launching people into space. It’s not sending anyone with a pulse just yet, but this upcoming launch is still a high-consequence event. In the wee hours of the morning on March 2, SpaceX’s shiny new astronaut taxi—dubbed Crew Dragon—will take to the skies, bound for the International Space Station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:59

How I Became a Robot in London—From 5,000 Miles Away

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2019/03/04

I am but a babe, exploring the world for the first time. Wearing a computerized glove, I reach forward in pursuit of a little toy basketball. A robotic arm and hand do the same, mimicking my every move. Slowly I grasp the object, lift it, swing my arm over, and let go, dropping the ball—ploink!—into a plastic cup. I am very, very proud of myself. Applause erupts from the computer in front of me. But this is no American applause here in San Francisco, this is British applause. Learn more about your

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10:31

Gene Editing Is Trickier Than Expected—but Fixes Are...

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2019/03/01

Of all the big, world-remaking bets on the genome-editing tool known as Crispr, perhaps none is more tantalizing than its potential to edit some of humanity’s worst diseases right out of the history books. Just this week, Crispr Therapeutics announced it had begun treating patients with an inherited blood disorder called beta thalassemia, in the Western drug industry’s first test of the technology for genetic disease. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:37

Polio Is Nearly Wiped Out—Unless Some Lab Tech Screws Up

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2019/02/28

In 1979, a photographer named Janet Parker got a disease that wasn't supposed to exist anymore. At first she thought she had the flu, but then she kept getting sicker, got a rash, and went to the hospital, where doctors—in disbelief—diagnosed her with smallpox. Just a year earlier, the World Health Organization had declared that "mankind probably had seen its last case of smallpox," according to The New York Times. That should have been true. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:04

This Viral Therapy Could Help Us Survive the Superbug...

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2019/02/26

In November 2015, infectious disease epidemiologist Steffanie Strathdee and her husband, evolutionary psychologist Tom Patterson, were spending the week of Thanksgiving exploring pyramids and pharaoh’s tombs in Egypt when Patterson came down with what seemed like a nasty bout of food poisoning aboard their cruise ship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:33

Your Weather Tweets Are Showing Your Climate Amnesia

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2019/02/26

Every time someone in a position of power (for example) says that a cold snap in winter proves that climate change is not a thing, a dutiful chorus responds with a familiar refrain: weather is not climate. Weather happens on the scale of days or weeks, over a distance relevant to cities or states. Climate happens over decades, centuries even, to an entire planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:25

Doubling Our DNA Building Blocks Could Lead to New...

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2019/02/25

If you were to boil all of biology down to a simple equation, it would be that DNA makes RNA, which makes proteins, which make every living thing you can see, smell, touch and taste (and a lot of things you can’t). This central dogma of biology, built on strings of Cs, Gs, As, and Ts, has prevailed since Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin discovered DNA’s double helix 65 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:30

NASA’s Space Shuttle Rises From the Dead to Power New...

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2019/02/22

In 2011, the storied Space Shuttle flew for the last time. Three spacecraft survive in retirement as specimens in museums around the country. But the program isn’t dead yet: Many of its parts are popping up as zombie components in spacecraft now in development. Modified left-over Shuttle engines will power NASA’s delayed Space Launch System (SLS), a giant launch vehicle intended for lunar missions and, eventually, Mars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:54

The Triumphant Rediscovery of the Biggest Bee on Earth

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2019/02/22

For security reasons, I can’t tell you exactly where Clay Bolt rediscovered Wallace’s giant bee. But I can tell you this. With a wingspan of two and a half inches, the goliath is four times bigger than a European honeybee. Very much unlike its honey-manufacturing cousin, it’s got enormous jaws, more like those of the famous stag beetle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:07

Boaty McBoatface Gears Up for Epic Swim Across the...

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2019/02/21

Boaty McBoatface may be better known for its name than for its oceangoing prowess. But the autonomous underwater vehicle and darling of the internet is headed to greater things: embarking on the longest journey of an AUV by far, with an uninterrupted, roughly 2,000-mile crossing of the Arctic Ocean. The submersible robot got its moniker when it became the consolation prize in a 2016 publicity stunt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:43

Our Ears Are Unlocking an Era of Aural Data

Science, Spoken ·

2019/02/20

Lisa Muratori is a professor of physical therapy who works with patients suffering from neurological conditions, like Parkinson’s, that might impair their strides. “Gait is important,” she notes—if you’re walking too slowly or unevenly, you’re more liable to have accidents. One tricky part of her practice is helping a patient figure out when their gait is drifting away from a stable pattern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:23

The Confounding Climate Science of Lab-Grown Meat

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2019/02/20

A future in which your hamburger is grown from animal cells in a lab is rapidly approaching. The idea is that by culturing meat in a vat, you not only cut down on animal slaughter but greatly reduce emissions, on account of cattle taking a lot of energy to raise and butcher and ship. Not to mention their digestive systems pump a significant amount of the greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere. That’s the idea anyway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:43

3 Smart Things: What You Might Not Know About Attention

Science, Spoken ·

2019/02/19

1. We gradually become less attentive as we age—and not just because we stop giving a damn. The phenomenon is due to a shrinking “useful field of view,” the feature of visual attention that helps us recognize at a glance what’s important to focus on. Studies show that kids have a similarly limited field of view, hindering their ability to register the complete visual world around them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:37

Why a Grape Turns Into a Fireball in a Microwave

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2019/02/19

The internet is full of videos of thoughtful people setting things on fire. Here’s a perennial favorite: Cleave a grape in half, leaving a little skin connecting the two hemispheres. Blitz it in the microwave for five seconds. For one glorious moment, the grape halves will produce a fireball unfit for domestic life. Physicist Stephen Bosi tried the experiment back in 2011 for the YouTube channel Veritasium, in the physics department’s break room at the University of Sydney. Learn more about your ad

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