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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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6:57

It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/17

Improperly discarded batteries leak toxic chemicals and are prone to exploding. A new program funded by the Department of Energy will prop up battery drop-off sites across the US.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:17

Google DeepMind's Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/16

Robotics researchers are exploring how large language models can give physical machines more smarts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:44

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second...

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2024/07/15

In a livestreamed update on X, Elon Musk and Neuralink executives gave an update on the company's next study participant—and its next-generation brain implant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:57

AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/12

Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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10:28

The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam...

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2024/07/11

Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:57

This Ancient Technology Is Helping Millions Stay Cool

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/10

Cheap, low-energy evaporative cooling devices are keeping water, food, people, and even whole buildings cool across India.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:38

Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/09

Much of health care is designed with the “comfortable middle” of society in mind, says designer Yves Behar, when it should be tailored to children, the elderly, and those with disabilities.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:31

How a Group of Butterflies Managed to Fly 4,200...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/08

When butterflies not native to South America appeared on a beach in French Guiana, entomologists started sleuthing to prove where they came from—and how they might have got there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:49

The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/04

More than 30 million Brits have the NHS app. This represents an opportunity to transform the health service, which shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calls “an analog system in a digital age.”Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:49

Sexist Myths Are a Danger to Health

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/03

To improve outcomes for female patients, all evidence needs to be considered—while outdated myths about the significance of sex differences need to be retired.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:20

Not Everyone Loses Weight on Ozempic

Science, Spoken ·

2024/07/02

For many patients, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy lead to substantial weight loss. But some see much less benefit, and researchers are trying to figure out why.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:27

NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms...

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2024/07/01

Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high interest rates and a difficult supply chain environment have affected Axiom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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7:00

Aging Might Not Be Inevitable

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/28

There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:03

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/27

Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:50

Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/26

Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a “nutritional value” to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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6:59

Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/25

It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, says the CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK. But that doesn’t solve the problem of one-third of dementia patients still going undiagnosed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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11:19

Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/24

A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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12:03

Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/21

With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneurs and politicians say local champions are needed to prevent a cultural flattening. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:32

How to Take the Perfect Soccer Penalty

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/20

To understand how to take a match-winning penalty, you’ve got to understand the physics behind the perfect kick.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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9:05

Starship’s Successful Test Moves SpaceX One Step...

Science, Spoken ·

2024/06/19

The vehicle mostly survived launch and reentry—key stepping stones toward operational flights of the largest rocket in history.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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