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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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3:28

How Kids Can Use 'Screen Time' to Their Advantage

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/27

I don’t think I’m the only parent who frets about their kids’ screen time. The Phineas and Ferb binges. Saturday nights playing Uncharted. It’s all turning their brains to sausage, right? Developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik wants us to take a deep breath—and focus less on how much kids use tech and more on how kids can use tech to their advantage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:18

Ski Resorts Fight Climate Change With Snow Blowers...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/27

After a wimpy winter, spring break has arrived, and skiers and snowboarders from Maine to Mammoth Lakes are stoked. More than 18 feet of snow has dropped at Squaw Valley, Calif., in March; Utah’s famed powder resorts have finally broken the 100-inch mark; and New England has been pummeled by four big storms pushing closing dates to late April. At the same time, there are warning signs about the future of the sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:18

In Search of God’s Mathematical Perfect Proofs

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2018/03/26

Paul ErdÅ‘s, the famously eccentric, peripatetic and prolific 20th-century mathematician, was fond of the idea that God has a celestial volume containing the perfect proof of every mathematical theorem. “This one is from The Book,” he would declare when he wanted to bestow his highest praise on a beautiful proof. Never mind that ErdÅ‘s doubted God’s very existence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:01

Will Cutting Calories Make You Live Longer?

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2018/03/26

More than a decade ago, researchers at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge began recruiting young, healthy Louisianans to voluntarily go hungry for two years. In addition to cutting their daily calories by 25 percent, the dozens who enrolled also agreed to a weekly battery of tests; blood draws, bone scans, swallowing a pill that measures internal body temperature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:52

See Everything Bad About Climate Change in a Single...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/23

Montecito is coming back to life this morning. The 9,000 person town to the east of Santa Barbara has been empty since Tuesday, when mandatory evacuations forced residents out of their homes for the fifth time in four months. This week it was a channel of tropical moisture called the Pineapple Express, dumping bands of intense rain and triggering flash floods throughout Southern California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:20

In the Courtroom, Climate Science Needs Substance—and...

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2018/03/23

Chevron would like you to know that it believes in climate change. It also believes people cause it by burning carbon-based fuel—the kind Chevron extracts from the ground, refines, and sells. In fact, Chevron believes all this so hard that today its lawyer said so, in a federal court in San Francisco. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? Yup. They’re right. That’s not as up-is-down as it might sound; Chevron representatives have said as much before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:18

Robot Microscopes Demystify Plankton, the Sea's Most...

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2018/03/23

Do you like a planet that hasn’t yet melted? Do you like sushi? How about breathing? Then you’re secretly in love with plankton, tiny marine organisms that float around at the mercy of currents. They sequester carbon dioxide and provide two thirds of the oxygen in our atmosphere and sacrifice themselves as baby food for the young fish that eventually end up on your plate. Yet science knows little about the complex dynamics of plankton on ocean-wide scales. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:11

Med Students Are Getting Terrible Training in Robotic...

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2018/03/22

If you think your on-the-job training was tough, imagine what life is like for newbie surgeons. Under the supervision of a veteran doctor, known as an attending, trainees help operate on a real live human, who might have a spouse and kids—and, if something goes awry, a very angry lawyer. Now add to the mix the da Vinci robotic surgery system, which operators control from across the room, precisely guiding instruments from a specially-designed console. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:25

Google's Quantum Computing Party Is as Fancy as...

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2018/03/21

“Want to come to a quantum computing party?” I wasn’t expecting the question. My brain was hurting: I’d just finished an hour-long interview with Jarrod McClean, a Google quantum computing scientist, and I was mentally planning to write up my notes. His talk had caught my attention the day before: McClean spoke animatedly, bobbing a magnificent head of shoulder-length ringlets, as he pointed at equations and diagrams on a PowerPoint presentation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:16

Big Ag Wants Farmers to Buy Into Satellite Imagery

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2018/03/21

It might not be apparent unless you're driving through the mid-longitudes of Interstate 70, but around 40 percent of the land in the United States is farmland. Understanding what happens on that acreage is complicated—for individual farmers and agricultural conglomerates. Understanding how to improve what’s going on is even harder. That’s why Granular—a farm software business under the agriculture division of DowDuPont—penned a deal with Planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:09

With Medicare Support, Genetic Cancer Testing Goes...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/20

This year, nearly 1.7 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer. Most will find out in the usual way; after having tiny blobs of tissue slurped up through a needle, smeared and stained on a slide, and put under the discerning eye of a pathologist. But starting this week, Medicare patients with advanced cancers will have access to a more 21st century diagnostic: Their cells can now be sequenced, matching patients with the drugs most likely to make a difference. Learn more about your ad choices

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11:43

To Stay Healthy On Your Next Flight, Avoid Aisles and...

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2018/03/20

If you want to avoid getting sick on a plane, the worst place to sit, according to Charles Gerba, is along the aisle. The issue is exposure—not just to other passengers, but anything they touch. That means obvious hot spots (arm rests, tray tables, in-flight magazines) and less-obvious ones like aisle seats, which people use to steady themselves as they move about the cabin, frequently on their way to and from a lavatory. Oh right, lavatories. Don't get Gerba started on those. Learn more about your

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12:26

Researchers Restore “Feeling” to Lost Limbs—Kinda

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/19

The bionic hand closes slowly. Its slender metal digits whirr as they jitter into a loose fist, as though they are wrapping around an invisible baton. "OK, closed," says the test subject. The test subject is Amanda Kitts. In 2006, a Ford F350 hit her Mercedes sedan head-on. The collision rent the truck's tire from its chassis and shoved the axle into Kitts' car, where it nearly severed her arm. "It wasn't completely off, but it was mincemeat," she says. "There was no saving it. Learn more about your

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11:37

Maybe Nobody Wants Your Space Internet

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2018/03/19

In the early 2000s, Greg Wyler, former founder of a semiconductor company, was laying fiber in Africa. He wanted to do something that mattered. Semiconductors didn’t matter, you know? But linking people to each other and to information did, he thought. “The lesser educated version of myself said, ‘Fiber is the answer,'" says Wyler. "'I’ll run it everywhere.’” He didn’t run it everywhere, though he did run it quite a few places in Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:45

Theranos Didn't Nuke the Diagnostics Business

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2018/03/16

It took ten years to build the Maverick, a dorm-fridge-sized box that takes in a cartridge with a little bit of blood—more than a drop but, you know, not a pint, either—and spits out new knowledge. On the cartridge is a silicon chip carved with antibody-lined channels; if any of a range of molecules that signal things like celiac disease are floating around, they stick to the antibodies, changing the way the channel reflects infrared light. The machine goes ping. (Not literally. Learn more about

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8:06

These Conservationists Are Desperate to Defrost Snake...

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2018/03/16

It’s hard to pick which species to save in Brazil right now. Yellow fever is tearing through primate populations, wiping out squirrel and howler monkeys. Poachers are nabbing giant anteaters for meat and blue macaws to sell as exotic pets. But conservation biologist Rogério Zacariotti wants to save a venomous yellow viper—the golden lancehead. But the snake isn't making it easy for him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:47

Stephen Hawking, a Physicist Transcending Space and...

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2018/03/15

For arguably the most famous physicist on Earth, Stephen Hawking—who died Wednesday in Cambridge at 76 years old—was wrong a lot. He thought, for a while, that black holes destroyed information, which physics says is a no-no. He thought Cygnus X-1, an emitter of X-rays over 6,000 light years away, wouldn’t turn out to be a black hole. (It did.) He thought no one would ever find the Higgs boson, the particle indirectly responsible for the existence of mass in the universe. Learn more about your ad

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10:23

What Keeps Egg-Freezing Operations From Failing?

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2018/03/15

On March 4, an embryologist at Pacific Fertility Center was doing a routine walk-through of the clinic’s collection of waist-high steel tanks, each one filled with thousands of liquid nitrogen-bathed vials of frozen sperm, eggs, and embryos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:23

This Pi Day, Calculate the Value of Pi for Yourself

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2018/03/14

It is once again Pi Day (March 14—which is like the first digits of pi: 3 and 14). Before getting into this year's celebration of pi, let me just summarize some of the most important things about this awesome number. Outside the US, Pi Day should probably be July 22 (22/7)—this fraction is a surprisingly good estimate of pi. You can find the value of pi with a mass and a spring. The value of pi is related to the local gravitational field. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:29

The Controversial Link Between Epic Storms and a...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/14

It’s that time of the year again, when massive winter storms lash the eastern United States and your uncle posts on Facebook about how it proves climate change is a hoax. After all, why would you still need a good coat on a warming planet? The fallacy is, of course, that weather is not the same as climate—though the two are intertwined in sometimes surprising ways. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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