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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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7:02

Congress Has a $65 Million Proposal to Study Tech’s...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/30

Like a lot of people, you probably spend a fair bit of time worrying about how much time you spend on your phone. Who doesn't these days? But what really concerns you is the youth. What is all that swiping and snapping and gramming doing to their still-developing brains? Surely somebody's studied this—the effect of all this screen time. So what have they found? Well, to be honest: nothing conclusive. At least not yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:01

That Purple Kush You're Toking Might Be a Genetic...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/27

Cannabis strain names can get a bit … quirky (Lamb’s Bread, anyone?). But without them, patients that rely on marijuana to treat ailments like pain would be lost. If you want to treat seizures, you might want ACDC—a strain that expresses almost zero THC and very high CBD, a non-psychoactive cannabinoid—and stay away from the potentially panic-inducing Ghost OG, which verges on 25 percent THC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:59

Next-Gen Nuclear Is Coming—If Society Wants It

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/27

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Back in 2009, Simon Irish, an investment manager in New York, found the kind of opportunity that he thought could transform the world while — in the process — transforming dollars into riches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:25

How Plastic Straws Slip Through the Cracks of Waste...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/26

Earlier this year, a three-year-old video of researchers extracting a long, twisted tube from a reptile’s bleeding nostril went viral. To date, it has accumulated more than 30 million views and set off a moral panic. The straw that broke the turtle’s beak also did a number on the camel’s back. Companies like Starbucks, Ikea, and Hilton hotels have announced policies reducing or eliminating single-use slurping devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:01

Scientists Discover the First Large Body of Liquid...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/26

For decades Mars has teased scientists with whispers of water's presence. Valleys and basins and rivers long dry point to the planet's hydrous past. The accumulation of condensation on surface landers and the detection of vast subterranean ice deposits suggest the stuff still lingers in gaseous and solid states. But liquid water has proved more elusive. Evidence to date suggests it flows seasonally, descending steep slopes in transient trickles every Martian summer. Learn more about your ad choices

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6:23

This Bomb-Simulating US Supercomputer Broke a World...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/25

Brad Settlemyer had a supercomputing solution in search of a problem. Los Alamos National Lab, where Settlemyer works as a research scientist, hosts the Trinity supercomputer—a machine that regularly makes the internet’s (ever-evolving) Top 10 Fastest lists. As large as a Midwestern McMansion, Trinity’s main job is to ensure that the cache of US nuclear weapons works when it’s supposed to, and doesn’t when it’s not. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:46

SpaceX Preps for Three Block 5 Launches in Just Two...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/25

This weekend, SpaceX began what is slated to be its busiest week ever by successfully launching its largest payload to date: a communications satellite dubbed TelStar 19V. Perched atop the company’s Cape Canaveral launch pad, a shiny new Falcon 9 rocket roared to life at 1:50 am Eastern on Sunday morning, lighting up the predawn sky. It was the 13th launch so far this year for SpaceX—and, notably, the first of three Falcon 9 Block 5 booster launches scheduled for the next 12 days. Learn more about

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12:28

How a Team of Experts Quelled Colorado's Enormous...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/24

I first heard about Colorado’s Spring Fire on July 1, when I was driving back from a camping trip. My mom texted me from her home in Florida: “How close are these fires?” I pulled over to a rest stop, called up the federal disaster website Inciweb, and sent her back a screenshot of the wildfire’s perimeter. It seemed far away from my house on the Huerfano County line, like it would have to cross impossible acres to even come close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:28

Meet the Woman Who Rocked Particle Physics—Three Times

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/24

In 1963, Maria Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since. One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu. Wu is the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and an experimentalist at CERN, the laboratory near Geneva that houses the Large Hadron Collider. Learn more about your ad

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3:12

Welcome to the Era of Orbital Publicity Stunts

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/23

Space Graffiti n. Objects placed in orbit for the sole purpose of being seen from Earth. In January a company called Rocket Lab secretly added an extra point of light to the night sky. Dubbed the Humanity Star, it was a faceted carbon-fiber sphere parked in low Earth orbit, designed to twinkle as it caught the sun’s rays, thus creating a “shared experience for everyone on the planet.” Astronomers were not amused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:58

Some Scientists Work With China, but NASA Won't

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/20

Inside a sealed clean room near Toulouse, France, Maurice Sylvestre points out something called SuperCam. Tall, with square-frame glasses, a corduroy jacket and a full head of brown hair, he resembles a mid-1980s version of actor Michael Caine, if Caine were an astrophysicist (and French). But right now it's hard to catch the resemblance: Sylvestre is outfitted in Tyvex and hairnets, necessary to keep out dust, skin particles, and dirt that could mar the super-smooth surface of his device. Learn

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9:04

A Comprehensive Guide to the Physics of Running on...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/20

One day humans will have a permanent presence on the moon. Right? One day it's going to happen. So, how are we going to live on the moon? And maybe a more important question—how are we going to move around there? In preparation for our lunar colony, let me look at three motions that we could do on the moon: jumping, running, and turning. Let me note that this analysis is inspired by Andy Weir's recent novel Artemis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:24

Rising Seas Could Cause Your Next Internet Outage

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/19

This storyoriginally appeared on Gristand is part of theClimate Deskcollaboration. You probably didn’t give much thought to how exactly you loaded this webpage. Maybe you clicked a link from Twitter or Facebook and presto, this article popped up on your screen. The internet seems magical and intangible sometimes. But the reality is, you rely on physical, concrete objects—like giant data centers and miles of underground cables—to stay connected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:06

How a Flock of Drones Developed Collective Intelligence

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2018/07/19

The drones rise all at once, 30 strong, the domes of light on their undercarriages glowing 30 different hues—like luminescent candy sprinkles against the gray, dusky sky. Then they pause, suspended in the air. And after a couple seconds of hovering, they begin to move as one. As the newly-formed flock migrates, its members’ luminous underbellies all change to the same color: green. They've decided to head east. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:02

In Greenland, Iceberg Shedding Is a Tourist...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/18

When an iceberg breaks off from a glacier, it can drift for thousands of miles, traveling freely across the open ocean. But last week, an iceberg’s journey was interrupted when it got stuck on a shallow part of the seafloor along Greenland’s western coast. In other words, the iceberg was grounded—and it had lodged itself right beside the small island village of Innaarsuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:27

Cheap, Portable Sensors Are Democratizing Air-Quality...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/18

This storyoriginally appeared on CityLaband is part of theClimate Deskcollaboration. Until she moved to Fresno, California in 2003, Janet DietzKamei had never experienced asthma. But after just a few years in a city notorious for its filthy air—the American Lung Association lists it in the five worst US cities for air quality—DietzKamei found herself in the emergency room struggling to breathe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:05

How New York City Is Tackling Extreme Heat in a...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/17

This storyoriginally appeared on Gristand is part of theClimate Deskcollaboration. On a hot summer day in New York City last July, Ajohntae Dixon was studying at home when he began struggling to breathe. With no air conditioning in his apartment, the temperature inside surged, and the 15-year-old’s gasping quickly progressed into a full-blown asthma attack under the oppressive heat. He took his inhaler and then tried his nebulizer, but he was still fighting for air. Learn more about your ad choices

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8:03

Astronomers Discovered 12 New Moons Around Jupiter....

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/17

Sometimes a search for one thing presents the chance to look for something else. If you're like me, that something else is usually something small: Rummaging in the couch cushions for the TV remote might prompt you to dig for spare change. Two birds, one stone, etc. But if you're astronomer Scott Sheppard, the second bird occasionally turns out to be a doozy. Or several doozies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:02

How Is a Runner Like a Bouncing Ball?

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/17

There are so many real-world physics problems involved in running. Lots of physicists have been inspired, for instance, by the crazy-fast speeds of Usain Bolt. Just take a look at this paper, "On the performance of Usain Bolt in the 100 m sprint" (European Journal of Physics), in which the authors examine the motion of Usain in one of his sprints. But what if you want to look at more . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:17

This Company Wants Your Fertility Data

Science, Spoken ·

2018/07/16

When Piraye Beim went to her first OBGYN visit more than two decades ago, she got a pap smear and an earful about avoiding STDs. She didn’t learn in that visit that the fact she was having excruciating periods as a teenager might mean she could have trouble conceiving later in life. She definitely didn’t hear the words “reproductive health” come out of her doctor’s mouth. Like nearly 10 percent of women, Beim has lived with endometriosis her whole adult life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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