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Science, Spoken

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6:36

Los Angeles Gets America's First Earthquake Warning App

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/10

This story originally appeared on CityLab and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On January 3, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the release of ShakeAlertLA, a new earthquake-warning app for residents of Los Angeles County. The app—the first of its kind in the United States—promises to “save lives by giving precious seconds to you and to your family to take action and to protect yourselves,” Garcetti told reporters at a launch event at City Hall. Learn more about your ad choices

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7:38

Ocean Cleanup's Plastic Catcher Is Busted. So What Now?

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/09

Bad news from the high seas: the Ocean Cleanup’s 600-meter-long floating tube, which was supposed to catch plastic whilst somehow surviving the relentless forces of the ocean, has done neither. In November, the organization—which has raised $40 million from donors and companies—announced that the thing wasn’t really catching plastic, and last week it said the giant tube had snapped in two. It's now being towed to Hawaii for repairs and upgrades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:59

The Clever Clumsiness of a Robot Teaching Itself to Walk

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2019/01/09

It’s easy to watch a baby finally learn to walk after hours upon hours of trial and error and think, OK, good work, but do you want a medal or something? Well, maybe only a childless person like me would think that, so credit where credit is due: It’s supremely difficult for animals like ourselves to manage something as everyday as putting one foot in front of the other. It’s even more difficult to get robots to do the same. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:43

The Shutdown Shows Just How Vital Government...

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2019/01/08

Instead of figuring out how many Pacific hake fishermen can catch sustainably, as his job demands, scientist Ian Taylor is at home with his four-month old daughter, biding his time through the partial government shutdown. Taylor’s task is to assess the size and age of hake and other commercially harvested fish species in the productive grounds from Baja California to the Gulf of Alaska. These stock assessments are then used by federal managers to approve permits to West Coast fishing boats. Learn

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9:10

We Need to Not Freak Out About the Robot Revolution

Science, Spoken ·

2019/01/04

You, like me, may sometimes (or all the time!) feel that the world is spiraling out of control—trade wars and political strife. And, oh right, climate change, arguably the greatest threat our species has ever faced. Or maybe artificial intelligence and robots will put us all out of work before the world actually ends. “A dirty little secret about autonomous vehicles,” says Edelman, “is there won't be enough people to service them because these are trade skill programs. Learn more about your ad

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6:50

Why Your Doctor Should Also Be a Scientist

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2019/01/04

Researchers at the University of Maryland recently announced a potential breakthrough in the fight against "neuropathic" pain—that is, pain that results from malfunctioning or damaged nerves.Neuropathic pain afflicts 100 million Americans and costs the nation over half a trillion dollars every year. WIRED OPINION ABOUT KurtAmsler, Ph.D., is a professor of biomedical sciences at the New York Institute of Technology's College of Osteopathic Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:26

One Species Loves Our Climate-Wrecking Ways: Fire Ants!

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2019/01/02

The red imported fire ant is one of the world’s most invasive species. Its sting delivers a burning poison that kills living tissue. Together groups of ants devour deer fawns, baby birds, reptiles, and almost any other source of protein they can get their mandibles on. They form acres of crisscrossing tunnels with thousands of cooperative workers. And their territory has steadily been spreading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:11

How to Follow New Horizons' Historic Flyby of Ultima...

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2019/01/01

For the past 13 years, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has been bolting away from the sun at speeds in excess of 31,000 miles per hour, charting a course for the fringes of our solar system. In 2015, it made a close pass of Pluto, returning the highest resolution images of the erstwhile planet the world has ever seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:22

The Year in Robots, From Boston Dynamics to (RIP) Baxter

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2018/12/31

Depending on your perspective, 2018 either brought us closer to salvation by way of robots, or closer to doom by way of robots: Where some see the end of meaningless work, others see the end of humanity, also meaningless. (We’re in the former camp, by the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:02

This Year SpaceX Made Us All Believe in Reusable Rockets

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2018/12/31

At the beginning of 2018, Elon Musk predicted that SpaceX would pull off 30 launches. The goal seemed far-fetched; among other reasons, some of those flights were planned for the Falcon Heavy, which at the time had yet to fly. Indeed, the company didn’t hit that figure. But the 21 launches it did pull off in 2018 still amount to a staggering achievement for the 16-year-old company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:58

NASA's New Horizons Probe Prepares To Make History—Again

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2018/12/28

Way, way out at the cold, dark edges of the solar system—past the rocky inner planets, beyond the gas giants, a billion miles more remote than Pluto—drifts a tiny frozen world so mysterious, scientists still aren't entirely sure if it's one world or two. Astronomers call it Ultima Thule, an old cartography term meaning "beyond the known world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:18

Don't Fear the Robot Overlords—Embrace Them as Coworkers

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2018/12/27

In a chilly warehouse just outside of Boston, the brute toils away. It’s 600 pounds of orange and black metal and whirring motors, a massive robotic arm that picks up car parts and places them on a table. Like its ancestors have done for decades, this industrial robot does the heavy lifting that no human worker could manage, and it does so with extreme speed and precision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:26

The Future of Crime-Fighting Is Family Tree Forensics

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2018/12/26

In April, a citizen scientist named Barbara Rae-Venter used a little-known genealogy website called GEDMatch to help investigators find a man they’d been looking for for nearly 40 years: The Golden State Killer. In the months since, law enforcement agencies across the country have flocked to the technique, arresting a flurry of more than 20 people tied to some of the most notorious cold cases of the last five decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:29

It's Not a Myth: Quantum Messages Really Can Travel...

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2018/12/24

Quantum computers are still a dream, but the era of quantum communication is here. A new experiment out of Paris has demonstrated, for the first time, that quantum communication is superior to classical ways of transmitting information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:53

The DRC's Ebola Outbreak Is an End-of-Year Nightmare

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2018/12/21

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14:20

Confirmed! Scientists Did See Gravitational Waves...

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2018/12/21

After the historic announcement in February 2016 hailing the discovery of gravitational waves, it didn’t take long for skeptics to emerge. The detection of these feeble undulations in the fabric of space and time by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was said to have opened a new ear on the cosmos. But the following year, a group of physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen published a paper casting doubt on LIGO’s analysis. Learn more about your ad choices

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9:58

We've Got the Screen Time Debate All Wrong. Let's Fix It

Science, Spoken ·

2018/12/20

In 1995, New York City psychiatrist Ivan Goldberg logged onto PsyCom.net, then a popular message board for shrinks, to describe a new disease he called "internet addiction disorder," symptoms of which, he wrote, included giving up important social activities because of internet use and "voluntary or involuntary typing movements of the fingers." It was supposed to be a joke. But to his surprise, many of his colleagues took him seriously. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:07

A Bug-Like Robot Uses Electricity to Walk Upside Down

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2018/12/20

A bug’s life doesn’t seem half bad, if you can overlook the super-short lifespan or the threat of getting eaten by lizards or swatted at by humans. Flying is nice, as is being able to walk on ceilings. The versatility is enviable, which is why roboticists are on a quest to imbue machines with the power of the bug. But to harness the powers of nature, roboticists are resorting to very un-biological means. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:23

Dark Matter Hunters Pivot After Years of Failed Searches

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2018/12/19

Physicists are remarkably frank: they don’t know what dark matter is made of. “We’re all scratching our heads,” says physicist Reina Maruyama of Yale University. “The gut feeling is that 80 percent of it is one thing, and 20 percent of it is something else,” says physicist Gray Rybka of the University of Washington. Why does he think this? It’s not because of science. “It’s a folk wisdom,” he says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:24

Can't Remember What You Read? Blame Font, Not...

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2018/12/19

Remember all those classics you devoured in comp-lit class? Neither do we. Research shows that we retain an embarrassingly small sliver of what we read. In an effort to help college students boost that percentage, a team made up of a designer, a psychologist, and a behavioral economist at Australia’s RMIT University recently introduced a new typeface, Sans Forgetica, that uses clever tricks to lodge information in your brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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