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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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8:30

Fighting Climate Change, and Building a World to...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/12/28

This past year, 2017, was the worst fire season in American history. Over 9.5 million acres burned across North America. Firefighting efforts cost $2 billion. This past year, 2017, was the seventh-worst Atlantic hurricane season on record and the worst since 2005. There were six major storms. Early estimates put the costs at more than $180 billion. As the preventable disease hepatitis A spread through homeless populations in California cities in 2017, 1 million Yemenis contracted cholera amid a

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11:23

What Happens Now? Studies of Sexual Harassment Can...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/12/27

Academics have been cast in a slow-motion horror movie for the past couple of years, as superstar scientist after superstar scientist has been pushed from his pedestal for allegations of sexual harassment. Societies and universities have tried to determine what to do—academe-style fixes like panels, workshops, and policies. None of that ivory-tower work cued the public crescendo that this year’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:50

Science Says Fitness Trackers Don't Work. Wear One...

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2017/12/27

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9:50

Crispr Isn’t Enough Any More. Get Ready for Gene...

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2017/12/26

In fewer than five years, the gene-editing technology known as Crispr has revolutionized the face and pace of modern biology. Since its ability to find, remove, and replace genetic material was first reported in 2012, scientists have published more than 5,000 papers mentioning Crispr. Biomedical researchers are embracing it to create better models of disease. And countless companies have spun up to commercialize new drugs, therapies, foods, chemicals, and materials based on the technology. Learn

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9:11

What It's Like to Spend Christmas at the Bottom of...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/12/25

Kelly Brunt won’t be home for the holidays, nor will she be ringing in the New Year at a fabulous party or watching Ryan Seacrest schmooze B-list celebrities on TV. Instead, between December 21 and January 11, she’ll be leading a four-person expedition around the South Pole, sleeping in a small tent mounted on a plastic sled that is pulled by a snowcat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:17

The Tricky Ethics of Knightscope's Crime-Fighting Robots

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2017/12/22

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8:14

Build a Thermoelectric Generator, Like the Ones That...

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2017/12/22

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9:20

Using Genetics to Make a More Perfect Christmas Tree

Science, Spoken ·

2017/12/21

This year, for the first time in my life, I’ll be hosting my family for the holidays. And to their deep disgruntlement, we’ll be celebrating it without a Christmas tree. No, this isn’t some principled stance against the yuletide-industrial complex or a personal front in the war on Christmas. I’m just much more interested in an indoor evergreen interloper when its needles fall in someone else’s home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:30

The Best Places to Donate for Last-Minute Science Gifts

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2017/12/21

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10:05

Can Science Keep Deep Sea Miners From Ruining the...

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2017/12/20

Ocean explorers and entrepreneurs have been thinking about how to scoop up mineral-laden deposits on the seafloor since the HMS Challenger dragged a few up in a bucket during its globe-trotting scientific voyage in the 1870s. A century later, the CIA used deep sea mining as a cover story for a secretive plan to recover a sunken Russian nuclear sub. Now, it’s a serious engineering proposition. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:34

How to Run Up a Wall—With Physics!

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2017/12/20

I can't decide if this looks like something from a super hero movie or from a video game. In this compilation video of crazy stunts, a guy somehow finds a way to bound up between two walls by jumping from one to the other. "Somehow," of course, means with physics: This move is based on the momentum principle and friction. Could you pull it off? Probably not. But you can at least do the math. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:46

2017 Was the Year the Robots Really, Truly Arrived

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2017/12/19

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8:14

Flu Season Is Here Early. Why Didn't We See It Coming?

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2017/12/18

If you’ve been putting off your flu shot until the season really gets going, wait no longer. It’s already here—and it’s looking like it’s going to be a doozy. Influenza viruses quietly circulate year-round in the US, but every winter they go big, triggering a seasonal epidemic of sniffles, sweats, and sore throats. And this year it’s come earlier than usual, just in time for a potential peak over the holidays. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:55

New Kepler Exoplanet Discovery Fueled by AI

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2017/12/18

Saturn's rings sure are pretty, and Matt Damon’s been to Mars, but our eight-planet solar system may not be that special after all. Today, scientists using data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft announced they’d discovered an eighth planet orbiting a star 2,500 light years away. They’ve named the planet Kepler-90i after the star it orbits, Kepler-90, which is slightly hotter and more massive than our sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:12

The Hard Math Behind Bitcoin's Global Warming Problem

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2017/12/15

Let me freak you out for a second. You know what bitcoin is, right? I mean, no, but quickly, it’s a “cryptocurrency” that’s basically secret computer money. One bitcoin, which doesn’t actually have a real, physical form, is worth at this moment upwards of $16,000. But to get one, you either have to buy them from online exchanges or use specialized computing hardware to “mine” it. That last bit is where the freak-out comes in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:04

Patients Want Poop Transplants. Here's How to Make...

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2017/12/15

Neill Stollman has been called the Tupac of poop transplants. The Oakland-based, board-certified gastroenterologist didn’t invent the treatment. But he did bring it to the west coast. His first patient was a woman in her 80s with a horrible case of Clostridium difficile, a gut infection that can strike patients after a course of antibiotics clears out their existing bacterial community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:04

The Alabama Senate Election Was Decided 100 Million...

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2017/12/14

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9:29

Crispr Therapeutics Plans Its First Clinical Trial...

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2017/12/14

In late 2012, French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier approached a handful of American scientists about starting a company, a Crispr company. They included UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna, George Church at Harvard University, and his former postdoc Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute—the brightest stars in the then-tiny field of Crispr research. Back then barely 100 papers had been published on the little-known guided DNA-cutting system. It certainly hadn’t attracted any money. Learn more about

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15:42

Psychologists Want in on Social Media's Big Data Trove

Science, Spoken ·

2017/12/13

Figuring out how human beings do human things is one of the most exciting things that science—psychology, sociology, economics, anthropology—can do. It’s also one of the hardest. Reliable, meaningful methods that distill real-world behavior into experimental variables have been, let’s say, elusive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:21

You Can Do Physics Even When You're Goofing Off

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2017/12/13

Sometimes, when I'm proctoring an exam, I end up with a little too much time on my hands. So I play with stuff—whatever I've got on hand. In this case, it was one of those clicky pens. It had stopped writing, so I assumed it was out of ink. Of course it might not be out of ink, so I took it apart to look at the ink cartridge and check. That's when I discovered the fun stuff: If I push the empty ink cartridge down into the top of the pen, it compresses a spring. Learn more about your ad choices

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