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7:53

To Fix the Space Junk Problem, Add a Self-Destruct...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/12/12

Humans have gotten pretty good at launching stuff into space—but way less good at getting stuff back down. Up in lower Earth orbit, along with a thousand-plus productive satellites, there are many more slackers: space junk, cosmic trash, garbage of the highest-orbiting order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:21

Climate Change Could Take the Air Out of Wind Farms

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2017/12/12

Big offshore wind farms power Europe’s drive for a carbon-free society, while rows of spinning turbines across America’s heartland churn enough energy to power 25 million US homes. But a new study predicts that a changing climate will weaken winds that blow across much of the Northern hemisphere, possibly leading to big drops in clean wind energy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:43

The US Flirts With Geoengineering to Stymie Climate...

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2017/12/11

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12:53

Google Is Giving Away AI That Can Build Your Genome...

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2017/12/08

Today, a teaspoon of spit and a hundred bucks is all you need to get a snapshot of your DNA. But getting the full picture—all 3 billion base pairs of your genome—requires a much more laborious process. One that, even with the aid of sophisticated statistics, scientists still struggle over. It’s exactly the kind of problem that makes sense to outsource to artificial intelligence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:29

The Physics of the Invisible Box Challenge

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2017/12/08

Humans dance. It's what they do. Everyone always wants to get some cool new dance move. First there was the electric slide. Yeah, that was cool—but then there was the moonwalk. That was really cool. And now we have the invisible box. OK, maybe it's not exactly a dance move, but more like a trick. The basic idea of this move is to make it seem like the dancer is stepping on a block—a block that's invisible. It's an impressive move, but how does it work? https://twitter. Learn more about your ad

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8:52

The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Burns

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2017/12/07

The Thomas Fire spread through the hills above Ventura, in the northern greater Los Angeles megalopolis, with the speed of a hurricane. Driven by 50 mph Santa Ana winds—bone-dry katabatic air moving at freeway speeds out of the Mojave desert—the fire transformed overnight from a 5,000-acre burn in a charming chaparral-lined canyon to an inferno the size of Orlando, Florida, that only stopped spreading because it reached the Pacific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:37

Will Russia's Olympic Ban Shred the Culture of Doping?

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2017/12/07

It took a while, but Russia finally got body-checked out of the Olympic Games. The road to ruin began in 2015, when two Russian track athletes-turned-whistleblowers raised suspicion about widespread state-sponsored doping at the 2012 London Games, followed by an independent report about problems at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:46

The AI Company That Helps Boeing Cook New Metals for...

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2017/12/06

At HRL Laboratories in Malibu, California, materials scientist Hunter Martin and his team load a grey powder as fine as confectioner’s sugar into a machine. They’ve curated the powder recipe—mostly aluminum, blended with some other elements—down to the atom. The machine, a 3-D metal printer, lays the powder down a single dusting at time, while a laser overhead welds the layers together. Over several hours, the machine prints a small block the size of brownie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:29

How Does Crispr Gene Editing Work?

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2017/12/05

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15:40

How Criminal Courts Are Putting Brains—Not People—on...

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2017/12/05

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9:36

At the Breakthrough Prizes, Silicon Valley Puts...

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2017/12/04

Every year in December, a makeshift hangar at the NASA Ames Research Center pops up for one night, transforming the austere airfield into a glitzy, paparazzi’d, black velvet-roped Nerd Prom. At the Breakthrough Prizes—where on December 3, a total of $22 million was handed out to pioneers in math, physics, and the life sciences—researchers traded lab coats and latex gloves for floor-length gowns and bow-tied tuxedos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:00

Ancestry’s Genetic Testing Kits Are Heading for Your...

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2017/12/01

This holiday season, more people than ever before are giving the gift of spit. Well, what’s in your spit, to be precise. Want to know where your ancestors once walked or whether you’re at risk for a genetic disease? There’s a spit tube kit for that. And customers are buying them in record numbers. Between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, leading personal genomics company AncestryDNA sold about 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:38

The Genesis of Kuri the Companion Robot

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2017/12/01

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10:36

Want to Learn How to Mine in Space? There’s a School...

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2017/11/30

Hunter Williams used to be an English teacher. Then, three years into that job, he started reading the book The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. The 1966 novel by Robert Heinlein takes place in the 2070s, on the moon, which, in this future, hosts a subterranean penal colony. Like all good sci-fi, the plot hinges on a rebellion and a computer that gains self-awareness. But more important to Williams were two basic fictional facts: First, people lived on the moon. Second, they mined the moon. Learn more

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7:14

Sea Level Rise Threatens Thousands of Archaeological...

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2017/11/30

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16:21

The Most Promising Cancer Treatments In a Century...

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2017/11/29

In 1891, a New York doctor named William B. Coley injected a mixture of beef broth and Streptococcus bacteria into the arm of a 40-year-old Italian man with an inoperable neck tumor. The patient got terribly sick—developing a fever, chills, and vomiting. But a month later, his cancer had shrunk drastically. Coley would go on to repeat the procedure in more than a thousand patients, with wildly varying degrees of success, before the US Food and Drug Administration shut him down. Learn more about your

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9:47

The Physics Behind the Strange Interstellar Asteroid...

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2017/11/29

For the first time, humans have detected an interstellar asteroid—a space rock they're calling 'Oumuamua, which is a Hawaiian word meaning "scout." It's the only object we've ever seen that entered the solar system from beyond our little collection of planets. That's a pretty big deal on its own. But on top of that, this asteroid has a really interesting shape: It's very long and skinny, with a width to length ratio of about 1 to 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:19

Behind the Scenes as NASA Tests the Most Powerful...

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2017/11/28

Behind the Scenes as NASA Tests the Most Powerful Rocket Ever NASA wants to send a human to Mars in the next two decades. And that means making the most powerful rocket ever. In 2019, NASA will send a capsule called Orion on an elaborate 25-day trajectory. First, the Space Launch System, the most powerful rocket ever built, will blast it into the ether. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:48

Soft Robots Acquire Origami Skeletons for Super-Strength

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2017/11/28

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7:40

What Good Is a Supercomputer If It Can't Show Off?

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2017/11/27

In Tampa, the conference center’s roof leaked. In Austin, the airport flooded. In Reno, conference organizers had to wait until a motorcycle rally was over before they could do some setup. During preparation for the SC Conference, a supercomputing meeting, there’s always something getting in the way of networking. But the conference, held annually in November, is perhaps more sensitive to water, delays, and herds of bikes than your average gathering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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