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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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7:56

China Is Both the Best and Worst Hope for Clean Energy

Science, Spoken ·

2018/12/04

In Katowice, Poland, delegates from around the world have gathered to discuss how to curb emissions of greenhouse gases. The intent is to meet the goals that emerged from the 2015 Paris United Nations Climate Summit. But this year there’s a new top dog at the table. The United States, led by a president who doesn’t believe in climate change or the scientists who study it, will take a back seat at this month's climate summit, known as COP24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:54

How Supercomputers Can Help Fix Our Wildfire Problem

Science, Spoken ·

2018/12/04

Fire is chaos. Fire doesn’t care what it destroys or who it kills—it spreads without mercy, leaving total destruction in its wake, as California’s Camp and Woolsey fires proved so dramatically this month. But fire is to a large degree predictable. It follows certain rules and prefers certain fuels and follows certain wind patterns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:55

Here's a Way to Fight Climate Change: Empower Women

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2018/12/03

“Gender and climate are inextricably linked,” said environmentalist and author Katharine Wilkinson on stage at TEDWomen last week, a gathering of women thought leaders and activists in Palm Desert, California. Women, she says, are disproportionately affected by climate change. When communities are decimated by floods or droughts, tsunamis or fire, the most vulnerable among them suffer the most. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:30

US Biotech Firms Made China's Gene-Edited Babies...

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2018/12/03

In 2015, the 12-person organizing committee of the first International Summit on Human Gene Editing—which included Crispr co-inventors Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier—issued a statement on how the world should responsibly push forward the science of permanently altering the DNA of Homo sapiens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:13

The Climate Apocalypse Is Now, and It’s Happening to You

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2018/11/30

What people say they know about climate change is a roller coaster of human ignorance—wait, everyone knows that but no one knows that? It’s striking to learn (according to Yale’s climate survey program) that 74 percent of women and 70 percent of men believe climate change will harm future generations of humans, but just 48 and 42 percent, respectively, think it’s harming them personally. It is, of course, in lots of ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:03

SpaceX's Next Launch Will Spark a Space Internet...

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2018/11/30

Elon Musk has long promised a constellation of thousands of satellites, called Starlink, which Musk hopes will one day handle half of all internet traffic—and earn him billions in access fees. It's one of the ways he hopes to fund his future Mars adventures. SpaceX says two demonstration satellites it built and launched earlier this year already show that internet from space can be as fast and lag-free as people expect from cables on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:30

Mercury Pollution Is Way Up. One Huge Culprit? Gold...

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2018/11/29

Last week, diplomats from over 150 countries flew to Geneva to discuss how to reduce human-made emissions. No, not that kind. These suits want to cut mercury pollution. Mercury, that slippery, silvery stuff in old-timey thermometers, is a “huge public health threat,” says meeting attendee Susan Keane, a public health expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:03

Scientist Who Crispr’d Babies Bucked His Own Ethics...

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2018/11/29

We said “don’t freak out,” when scientists first used Crispr to edit DNA in non-viable human embryos. When they tried it in embryos that could theoretically produce babies, we said “don’t panic.” Many years and years of boring bench science remain before anyone could even think about putting it near a woman’s uterus. Well, we might have been wrong. Permission to push the panic button granted. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:44

Rogue Scientist Says Another Crispr Pregnancy Is...

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2018/11/28

On the second day of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, the last session before lunch was already running long. But the crowd crammed into the Lee Shau Kee Lecture Centre at the University of Hong Kong wasn’t budging. Neither were the 5,500 people around the world glued to their live video feeds. Everyone was waiting to hear from the the final speaker, the man who says he helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:36

The Government's Role in the Rise of Lab-Grown Meat

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2018/11/28

Last month, the US Department of Agriculture and FDA convened to debate meat: what it is and isn't, and if plant-based or lab-grown products like those made by Impossible Burger and Memphis Meats should be called meat. Lab-grown meat is still months from market, but vegetarian meats already have the poultry and cattle industries in a tizzy. Sales of meat analogues are growing at steady clip of 23 percent a year, nibbling out a decent market share. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:42

The View From the Control Room: How InSight Landed on...

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2018/11/27

In the morning hours before NASA’s InSight spacecraft entered Mars’s atmosphere, roughly 30 employees of Lockheed Martin gathered in the company’s InSight Mission Support Area, in Denver. They all wore the same red button-down shirt adorned with a mission patch. Someone had taped red plastic over some of the fluorescent lights, to lend the room a martian ambience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:15

Inside the Lab Training Genome Surgeons to Fight Disease

Science, Spoken ·

2018/11/27

Delaney Van Riper was exhausted. It was the summer of 2017 and she’d spent the previous day touring UC Santa Cruz’s cliffside campus, getting her student paperwork in order, and meeting some of her 4,000 fellow incoming Slugs. Now, dressed head-to-toe in sweats, she was ready to nap in the backseat for the ride to her family’s home three hours away in Sacramento. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:24

Cities Have Turned Into Fire Bait—But We Can Fix Them

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2018/11/26

The Northern California city of Paradise is gone—the Camp Fire, by far the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history, has reduced home after home to ashes. It conjures images of a tsunami of flame tearing through the town, destroying everything in its path. Curiously, though, trees still stand between burned-out homes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:17

NASA Will Land InSight on Mars With Cunning—and Lots...

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2018/11/26

There's really no way to rehearse landing on Mars. You can simulate it, sure, but the most valuable lessons are learned during actual attempts. When things go poorly, those lessons are also the most expensive. The fact is, most missions to Mars don't make it, though NASA has a better track record than most. The agency has executed seven successful touchdowns on the red planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:40

Thin, Flexible New Solar Cells Could Soon Line Your...

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2018/11/23

The general rule when developing a new kind of solar technology is to expect progress to be slow. Take silicon solar cells, the most ubiquitous and recognizable form of photovoltaic generations today. When silicon panels were first built in the early 1950s, they could only turn about 6 percent of the light that hit them into electricity. More than 30 years later, that number had inched up to 20 percent, and today—30 years after that—they regularly perform in the mid 20s. Learn more about your ad

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4:24

Eyes and Ears 3D-Printed From Flesh Could Boost Our...

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2018/11/23

Electronics often don’t mesh well with flesh and blood. Cochlear implants can irritate the scalp; pacemaker wires dislodge; VR headsets weigh heavily on the face. That’s why, for the past six years, Michael McAlpine has been Frankensteining alternatives. A mechanical engineer at the University of Minnesota, he creates prototypes of bionic body parts with nice, soft components—some of them alive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:06

Giant Lasers Bring Distant Twinkling Stars Into Sharp...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/11/22

The twinkling of a starry night sky is romantic, sure. But for astronomer Dominika Wylezalek, “it’s a nightmare.” That’s because Wylezalek studies galaxies billions of light-years away, and all that finicky glimmering—she’d call it “turbulence”—gets in the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:12

When Did Fish Learn to Walk? Antarctica May Hold the...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/11/22

To figure out how and when ancient fish first crawled from the ocean onto land, Neil Shubin is about to head to the mountains of Antarctica. Leaving behind family and friends for the upcoming holidays, he and a team of five other scientists and a mountain guide will be camping at the base of a remote mountain range that was a tropical river delta around 385 million years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:14

This Thanksgiving, Ditch the Food Psychology

Science, Spoken ·

2018/11/21

In my family, Thanksgiving this year has turned into a week-long holiday. Not because we’re all so fanatical about celebrating the violent European colonization of North America, but because it will take us that long to figure out what on Earth to put on the table. In a party of 12 we’ve got a duo of vegetarians, one part-time pollotarian, the recently dairy-avoidant and the long-time spice-averse, plus the seasonal carb-watchers and the one insufferable celery-hater. Learn more about your ad

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9:40

Cosmology Is in Crisis Over How to Measure the Universe

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2018/11/21

Let’s say you have a baby. Maybe you really do, maybe you don’t. But Dan Scolnic, a cosmologist at the University of Chicago, does have one, and perhaps that's why a hypothetical baby helps him explain the universe. If you take this baby to the doctor, that doctor will weigh and measure the baby, plot those points on a growth chart, and predict how big they’ll be later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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