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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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7:32

This App Lets Kenya's Farmers Monitor Crops From Eyes...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/29

Climate change is the most horrific threat our species has ever known: No matter how powerful you are or how much money you have, our transforming planet is a reckoning for every one of us. But there are degrees to this misery. If you’re perched in a Manhattan penthouse, the effects might not be immediately apparent (because you don’t care or aren’t paying attention, or both). If you’re a subsistence farmer in Kenya, the situation is already much more dire. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:57

The Excruciating, Impossible Science of Airport Delays

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/28

Friday morning began with delays at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. That’s not unusual—New York’s airports are famously balky. But this time, the cause wasn't something prosaic, like a blizzard. It was staffing. Because of the federal government shutdown, the airport didn’t have enough Transportation Security Administration agents and air traffic controllers; things slowed to a ground stop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:23

We Need a Radical New Way to Understand Screen Use

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/25

To anyone reading this on a phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop (so, you know, basically all of you): We need to talk about how we talk about screen use. For too long the conversation’s been stuck on how much time we spend on our devices, and the effect that time has on our well-being. The more salient question for a society in which people’s lives increasingly revolve around screens is how we spend that time. But to answer that question, we need better data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:22

Drones Drop Poison Bombs to Fight One Island’s Rat...

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2019/01/25

I get the feeling you don’t dislike rats enough. Because your struggles with the rodents chewing through your house pale in comparison to the problems wrought by rodents chewing through entire island ecosystems. Release just one pregnant rat on an island and soon enough the invasive predators will have decimated that pristine environment like an atom bomb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:12

One Scientist Hopes to Engineer the Climate With Antacid

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/24

To help cure the planet’s ailments, Zhen Dai suggests antacid. In powdered form, calcium carbonate—often used to relieve upset stomachs—can reflect light; by peppering the sky with the shiny white particles, the Harvard researcher thinks it might be possible to block just enough sunlight to achieve some temperature control here on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:31

The Water in Your Toilet Could Fight Climate Change...

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2019/01/24

Day after day, you pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, whether you’re driving or turning on lights or eating meat. You can’t help it, because really, no human can. But I bet you haven’t stopped to think about how the simple act of pooping is also part of the problem: Worldwide, wastewater treatment facilities account for 3 percent of electricity consumption and contribute 1.6 percent of emissions. A drop in the horrifying bucket that is climate change, you might say. Learn more about your ad

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7:41

We Can Still Avoid a Repeat of Last Year's Deadly Flu...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/23

As flu season nears its annual peak, between eight and nine and a half million people in the US have already been sickened by various strains of the respiratory virus, according to new estimates released Friday by federal health officials. That report, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also estimates that approximately 100,000 people have been hospitalized for complications resulting from the flu. It’s still too soon to know how bad the 2018-2019 season will be. Learn more about

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6:17

Exploding Stars May Have Killed Off Prehistoric...

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2019/01/23

Even though Earth is floating in the void, it does not exist in a vacuum. The planet is constantly bombarded by stuff from space, including a daily deluge of micrometeorites and a shower of radiation from the sun and more-distant stars. Sometimes, things from space can maim or kill us, like the gargantuan asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:39

For Women Job Seekers, Networking Like a Man Isn't...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/22

To get a great job, you’ve got to network—make contacts, know the right people. You know the drill. But a study out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the kind of networking that works best for men isn’t enough for women. Women need access to key kinds of information that men don’t. And how can they get it? From other women. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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2:45

3 Smart Things: The Hidden Lives of Liquids

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/21

1. Most substances make a clean break between their liquid and solid states. But liquid crystals straddle the boundary: They flow smoothly, like water, while maintaining a crystalline structure. A tiny jolt of electricity aligns the molecules in the same direction and allows them to rotate light—an effect you see when the pixels in your LCD television or smartphone flip on and off to form pretty images. 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:47

Space Billboards Are Just the Latest Orbital Stunt

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/21

In January 2018, Rocket Lab sent a surprise to orbit. Along with its normal payloads, the launch company deployed a shiny object it dubbed the Humanity Star—basically a 3-foot-wide disco ball. Its reflective surface would shine down on Earth’s inhabitants, visible to the naked eye for a few months. “No matter where you are in the world, or what is happening in your life, everyone will be able to see the Humanity Star in the night sky,” founder Peter Beck said in a statement. Learn more about your ad

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9:12

If Edible Insects Are the Future, We Should Talk...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/18

Two billion people can’t be wrong—at least, not about the nearly 2,000 species of insects that make for good eatin’ around the world. But nobody has to pitch you on the benefits of insectivory, right? Easier on the environment, full of weird nutrients, and whoa, check out that feed conversion ratio: It takes half as much food as you’d give to pigs and chickens and a twelfth as much as cattle to get the same amount of cricket protein on the far side of the abattoir. Learn more about your ad choices

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10:12

A Crocodile-Like Robot Helps Solve a 300-Million-Year...

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2019/01/18

Nearly 300 million years ago, a curious creature called Orobates pabsti walked the land. Animals had just begun pulling themselves out of the water and exploring the big, dry world, and here was the plant-eating tetrapod Orobates, making its way on four legs. Paleontologists know it did so because one particularly well-preserved fossil has, well, four legs. And luckily enough, scientists also discovered fossilized footprints, or trackways, to match. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:25

To Prevent Wildfires, Treat Utilities Like Railroad...

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2019/01/17

Actions have consequences, as our parents likely told us as kids. But inaction has consequences, too. Life or death consequences, in the case of California’s new normal of massive, climate-change-driven wildfires. After a series of devastating fires over the last few years, critics have turned their ire toward PG&E, a utility that brings electricity to 5.4 million households and businesses in Northern California. Its equipment has been blamed for 17 of 21 major fires in 2017 alone. Learn more about

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10:55

Is ’Oumuamua an Alien Spaceship? Sure! Except, No

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/16

When you wish upon a star (or an asteroid or a comet) you are wishing on plasma, ice, dust, rock, on an object that exists, for real, so far away and moving so fast that no living human will likely ever have direct contact with it. (Well, generally.) But you’re also wishing on a metaphor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:40

Dark Matter Hunters Are Looking Inside Rocks for New...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/16

In nearly two dozen underground laboratories scattered all over the earth, using vats of liquid or blocks of metal and semiconductors, scientists are looking for evidence of dark matter. Their experiments are getting more complicated, and the search is getting more precise, yet aside from a much-contested signal coming from a lab in Italy, nobody has found direct evidence of the mysterious material that is thought to make up 84 percent of the matter in the universe. Learn more about your ad choices

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6:53

Bio-Printers Are Churning out Living Fixes to Broken...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/15

For doctors and medical researchers repairing the human body, a 3D printer has become almost as valuable as an x-ray machine, microscope, or a sharp scalpel. Bioengineers are using 3D printers to make more durable hip and knee joints, prosthetic limbs and, recently, to produce living tissue attached to a scaffold of printed material. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:34

Trump's Immigration Speech Won't Change Minds,...

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/14

When President Trump first announced he would deliver a primetime address about the border wall, people objected. They argued that the networks shouldn’t run it, given Trump’s record of lying about immigration issues and the precedent of not airing presidential speeches deemed purely political. Misinformation experts warned that if news organizations do air the speech, they should fact-check it live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:41

A Strange Kind of Data Tracks the Weather—and Pirate...

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2019/01/11

A group of apes is called a shrewdness; a group of ferrets is called a business; a group of small satellites is called a constellation. And Spire is the name of one shrewd business with a constellation of small satellites. More than 60 of its sats are up in orbit, collecting information about the weather, as well as the movements of ships and air traffic. Inside Spire’s Boulder office, a conference-room computer beams those satellites’ knowledge from space to a screen. Learn more about your ad

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6:53

To Prevent Fires, One California Town Says 'Goat Fund...

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2019/01/10

Nestled in the foothills of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains is the quaint Gold Rush town of Nevada City. Surrounded by unkempt brush, the old, highly flammable city is in danger: with California’s wildfires raging with unprecedented ferocity in recent years, one spark could doom Nevada City to the same fate that neighboring Paradise met in November. But not if the goats get there first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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