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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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6:12

Please Stop Building Houses Exactly Where Wildfires...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/13

Built well, a city should provide a bulwark against disaster. Fundamentally, all cities are fortresses. Or at least they should be. If a city is a fortress, where’s the wall? The edges of North American cities today aren’t edge-like at all. Most of them, especially in the West, ooze outward in a gradient, urban to suburban to exurban to rural to wild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:18

The Physics of the Speeder Chase in Solo: A Star Wars...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/13

I make it my job to hunt through all the best trailers and find some cool physics thing to explore. In this case, it's the trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story—the Han Solo-led movie, scheduled to come out in May, that takes place some time before Episode IV: A New Hope. Right at the beginning, we see Han driving some type of speeder in a chase scene, taking a super-sharp turn with another speeder in pursuit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:18

Can Machine Learning Find Medical Meaning in a Mess...

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2018/03/12

“We don’t have much ground truth in biology.” According to Barbara Engelhardt, a computer scientist at Princeton University, that’s just one of the many challenges that researchers face when trying to prime traditional machine-learning methods to analyze genomic data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:55

The Transformer of Autonomous Farmbots Can Do 100...

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2018/03/12

The first fully autonomous ground vehicles hitting the market aren’t cars or delivery trucks—they’re robo-farmhands. The Dot Power Platform is a prime example of an explosion in advanced agricultural technology, which Goldman Sachs predicts will raise crop yields 70 percent by 2050. But Dot isn’t just a tractor that can drive without a human for backup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:19

No Refrigeration Necessary: New Tech for Everlasting...

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2018/03/09

There’s hope for a tastier, healthier, more robust tomorrow: high-tech new food preservation methods that fend off the bad stuff (bacteria, spoilage) while protecting the good (flavor, texture, nutrients). Scientists are experimenting with everything from microwave sterilization to blasts of plasma to ensure food stays appetizing longer—even without refrigeration. That salmon dinner you bought on Monday? It’ll taste just as fresh a week later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:32

Can Humans Survive on Water Vapor Alone?

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/09

The world is full of water, flushing down our toilets and flowing from our taps. And yet where I live, in the American Southwest, and quite possibly where you live, the kind of water people need to survive is getting harder to come by. Across the region, temperatures are rising and droughts are getting more severe, and in the coming decades the West will struggle to supply the water its residents and businesses demand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:18

Apparently We Can Let the Stock Market Fight Climate...

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2018/03/08

Fixing the effects of climate change on Earth isn’t complicated. When you get down to it, all we humans need to save the world is ingenuity, grit, cooperation, and $53 trillion. Where is humanity supposed to come up with that kind of cash at this time of night? The International Energy Agency says Earth needs those trillions invested in energy supply and efficiency by 2035 to keep global warming below 2 degrees C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:21

Sea Level Rise in the SF Bay Area Just Got a Lot More...

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2018/03/08

If you move to the San Francisco Bay Area, prepare to pay some of the most exorbitant home prices on the planet. Also, prepare for the fact that someday, your new home could be under water—and not just financially. Sea level rise threatens to wipe out swaths of the Bay's densely populated coastlines, and a new study out today in Science Advances paints an even more dire scenario: The coastal land is also sinking, making a rising sea that much more precarious. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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2:36

The CDC Can't Fund Gun Research. What if that Changed?

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/07

America doesn't have good data on guns. Blame the Dickey amendment. First introduced in 1996, the legislation didn't ban gun investigations explicitly (it forbade the use of federal dollars in the advocacy or promotion of gun control), but Congress that year also cut the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by the exact amount it had previously devoted to firearm research. It's had a chilling effect on the field ever since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:14

Researchers Used This Genealogy Site to Build a 13...

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2018/03/07

In the last 20 years, genealogy websites have attracted more than 15 million customers by promising insights into your past. Maybe you’ll uncover a secret infidelity or be reunited with a long-lost cousin, like when Larry met Bernie on Finding Your Roots. It’s deeply personal, affecting stuff. But when your family tree contains thousands, millions, even tens of millions of people, it’s no longer a personal history. It’s human history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:45

The Secret to a High Tech Concierge Medical Office? Data

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2018/03/06

By design, the downtown San Francisco storefront offices of Forward feel more like a spa or a ritzy skin care boutique than a doctors’ office. But the latter thing is true. Despite the sun shining through floor-to-ceiling windows onto pastel walls, blond-wood surfaces and no check-in desk in sight (attractive, casually dressed receptionists with iPads offer you a water), Forward is a concierge medical service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:01

Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser

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2018/03/06

You can’t see the bunny, but the picosecond laser certainly can. In a lab at Stanford, engineers have set up a weird contraption, hiding a toy bunny behind a T-shaped wall. And their complex system of computation and rapidly firing lasers can see around that corner. So, too, could the self-driving cars of the future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:35

A Bomb Cyclone Brings Massive Flooding to New...

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2018/03/05

Since early Friday morning, calls have been crackling across the Duxbury Fire Department dispatch center in a barrage of static. “Tree down on a house on Mayflower Street.” “Wires down on at Keene Street and Congress.” The seaside Massachusetts town is now firmly in the grips of Winter Storm Riley, the massive Nor’Easter forecasted to explosively develop through the weekend across a 700-mile swath of New England. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:28

The Subtle Nudges That Could Unhook Us From Our Phones

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2018/03/05

Enough. It's time. You've decided to reclaim your morning commute by spending it on something substantive. No more bottomless Instagram feeds and auto-playing YouTube videos for you! So out the door you stride with that week's New Yorker wedged beneath your arm, a new episode of Flash Forward playing in your ear, or the latest Jesmyn Ward novel cued up on your Kindle app. So far so substantive. But it doesn't last. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:44

Spoof, Jam, Destroy: Why We Need a Backup for GPS

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2018/03/02

Earth got a warning shot on January 25, 2016. On that day, Air Force engineers were scheduled to kill off a GPS satellite named SVN-23—the oldest in the navigation constellation. SVN-23 should have just gone to rest in peace. But when engineers took it offline, its disappearance triggered, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, a software bug that left the timing of some of the remaining GPS satellites—15 of them—off by 13.7 microseconds. Learn more about your ad choices

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5:45

How Flight Simulation Tech Can Help Turn Robots Into...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/02

The robotic platform heaves, as if breathing. Atop it stretches a piece of white gauze with a blue line painted down the middle. Along this line another robot snips with little surgical scissors, waiting for the platform to come to a brief rest before making a cut. And another snip, and rest. And another, and rest, on down the line. This could be you one day. Not that you’ll turn into a robot—you may go under the knife of a machine working as a surgical assistant. Learn more about your ad choices

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8:16

You Can Find the Gravitational Constant with String...

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/01

There are quite a few fundamental constants. These are things like the speed of light (c) the charge on an electron (e), and the Planck constant (h). These constants are determined with some type of interesting experiment. The first values of these constants were often difficult to find—the speed of light, for example, was calculated by tracking the moons of Jupiter. Of course, now we have much better methods to get a very precise value for the speed of light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:00

Congress Takes On Sexual Harassment in the Sciences

Science, Spoken ·

2018/03/01

Female scientists were reporting sexual abuse and harassment by professors years before the #MeToo movement exploded in the public eye last fall. From unwanted comments and weird texts to missed promotions and direct assaults, female graduate students and postdocs are often vulnerable while working in male-dominated field camps, laboratories, or remote observatories where there are few places to turn for help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:43

How to Build a Space Communication System Out of Lasers

Science, Spoken ·

2018/02/28

In October 2013, a moon-orbiting NASA spacecraft aimed a laser beam at Earth, 239,000 miles away. Within seconds, the intended recipient—an observatory in southern California—locked onto the beam of infrared light, invisible to the naked eye. Encoded inside the light was a high-definition video of NASA administrator Charles Bolden delivering a short speech. Bolden had, of course, recorded the video on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:38

With This DNA Dating App, You Swab, Then Swipe For Love

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2018/02/28

Christopher Plata doesn’t have time or patience for bad dates anymore. The 30 year-old nursing student has been trying for years to meet Mr. Right—first on Grindr and Compatible Partners (eHarmony’s queer subsidiary), and more recently on Bumble—and has yet to find someone with whom he shares a real connection. “I’ve really been through the ringer,” he says. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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