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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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10:08

Can You Figure Out What's Wrong in This Iron Man 3...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/30

Late at night, I tend to flip through the channels just to see what's up. If there's a good movie on, I might watch part of it—and recently, I stumbled on Iron Man 3. I know what you're gonna say—that's a terrible superhero movie. But I disagree. Fantastic Four, now that's a terrible superhero movie. Iron Man 3 wasn't so bad. Especially not that part where Tony Stark has to go to the store and MacGyver his way into a temporary suit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:33

New Science Could Sharpen Crispr's Gene-Editing Scalpel

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/27

Stay on target. That’s the mantra you hear in labs and biotech companies around the world as they snip away at DNA. All the techniques for gene editing—from the famous Crispr-Cas9 to the older TALENs and zinc-finger nucleases—share a problem: Sometimes they don’t work. Which is to say, they have “off-target effects,” changing a gene you don’t want changed or failing to change a gene that you do. And DNA is not something you want poorly rewired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:30

Cutting Carbs Won't Save You From Cancer

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/26

Half-eaten doughnuts hit the bottom of waste bins around the world this week, as news feeds spread word of a new dietary danger. Yes, headlines declared, a new study shows that sugar is the favorite food of cancer. Cancer. “This link between sugar and cancer has sweeping consequences,” wrote Johan Thevelein, a Belgian biologist and co-author of the study published last Friday in the journal Nature Communications. Sweeping is right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:51

The Way the World Ends: Not with a Bang But a Paperclip

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/25

Paperclips, a new game from designer Frank Lantz, starts simply. The top left of the screen gets a bit of text, probably in Times New Roman, and a couple of clickable buttons: Make a paperclip. You click, and a counter turns over. One. The game ends—big, significant spoiler here—with the destruction of the universe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:37

How on Earth Does Aquaman Fly in the Justice League...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/24

I'll be honest—I don't know as much about DC superheroes as Marvel superheroes. Still, I'm pretty excited about the upcoming DC movie Justice League. As a kid, I dressed up as Aquaman; my mother was pretty good at making stuff and so she made costumes for me and my two brothers. The other two costumes were Robin and Superman—the unifying theme being that they don't have complicated masks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:01

Can We Still Rely On Science Done By Sexual Harassers?

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/23

The pandemic of sexual harassment and abuse—you saw its prevalence in the hashtag #metoo on social media in the past weeks—isn’t confined to Harvey Weinstein’s casting couches. Decades of harassment by a big shot producer put famous faces on the problem, but whisper networks in every field have grappled with it forever. Last summer, the story was women in Silicon Valley. Last week, more men in media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:07

Could San Francisco Get the Oil Industry to Pay for...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/20

When a raindrop falls in San Francisco, it has two choices: flow east into the San Francisco Bay, or west into the Pacific Ocean. A ridgeline divides the city into two, slicing through the Presidio, hugging the eastern edge of Golden Gate Park, and skirting Twin Peaks. As the land drops off in either direction, the elevation difference doesn’t just drive raindrops downhill—it also moves human waste. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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78:10

What Happens When Robots Act Just Like Humans

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2017/10/18

Three years later, in 2005, Ishiguro unveils Repliee Q1 Expo to the public. Modeled on a grown woman (a popular Tokyo newscaster) and produced with better funding, this version can move its upper body fluidly and lip-synch to recorded speech. Ishiguro’s lab conducts several studies with it; the results are featured in a major Japanese robotics journal; the lab is filmed for television; he hears about a copycat android in South Korea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:02

In 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,' Planet Sovereign...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/18

One of the great things about movies set in space is that the writers have the opportunity to come up with some fantastically crazy situations. Just look at the planet Sovereign, revealed at the beginning of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Don't worry about why the Guardians are on this planet too much—instead, let's just focus on the planet itself. It looks something like this: It's fantastically awesome—and I'm OK with that. However, there is a small physics problem here. Learn more about your ad

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12:45

How Climate Change and 'Smoke Taint' Could Kill Napa...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/17

Nick Goldschmidt has been lucky so far. A wildfire has burned more than 8,000 acres just north of his vineyards in Geyserville, California, but so far his vines are OK. So is his house in Healdsburg, roughly midway between Geyserville and a 36,000-acre fire that destroyed more than 2,800 homes in Santa Rosa. But now, amid the charred, empty spaces that scar northern California’s winegrowing region, under skies yellowed by smoke, Goldschmidt has a race to win. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:20

Meet the Geek Who Tracks Rogue Satellites With Coat...

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2017/10/16

Every 95 minutes, the Chinese satellite Zhuhai-1 02 makes a full pass around the planet, its solar-panel arms extending from its boxy body as it observes Earth. Sometimes, its path takes it over Pueblo, Colorado. There, more than 300 miles below, Mike Coletta’s receiving station can pick up Zhuhai’s transmissions. Because as sophisticated as space technology is, the terrestrial tech necessary to make contact with celestial satellites is surprisingly low. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:10

In Cities, It's the Smoke, Not the Fire, That Will...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/13

No one knows what sparked the violent fires ablaze in the hills of California wine country. In the last five days, the flames have torched more than 160,000 acres across Napa and Sonoma counties, reducing parts of Santa Rosa to piles of cinder and ash and leaving more than 20 dead and hundreds missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:45

The Napa Fire Is a Perfectly Normal Apocalypse

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/12

Blame the wind, if you want. In Southern California they call it the Santa Ana; in the north, the Diablos. Every autumn, from 4,000 feet up in the Great Basin deserts of Nevada and Utah, air drops down over the mountains and through the canyons. By the time it gets near the coast it’s hot, dry, and can gust as fast as a hurricane. Or blame lightning, or carelessness, or downed power lines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:12

This New Alzheimer’s Test Looks Beyond a Single...

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2017/10/11

America is entering a period that may one day be known as The Great Forgetting. Alzheimer’s, a disease defined as much by the accumulation of mental lapses as by tangled proteins in the brain, is an ailment of the aging. Sixty-five-year-olds have a one in 10 chance of a positive diagnosis. By age 85, the odds jump to one in three. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:37

Silicon Isn't Just for Computers. It Can Make a...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/10

Every week, two million people across the world will sit for hours, hooked up to a whirring, blinking, blood-cleaning dialysis machine. Their alternatives: Find a kidney transplant or die. In the US, dialysis is a roughly 40-billion-dollar business keeping 468,000 people with end-stage renal disease alive. The process is far from perfect, but that hasn't hindered the industry's growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:57

Let's Analyze the Ridiculous Physics of the Bugatti...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/09

At one point in the past, I was a teenager. Hard to believe, I know, but it's true. During that time, I thought about teenager things. In particular, I recall thinking about and wanting a super fast car. Maybe a Lamborghini or a Ferrari. At lunch my friends and I would argue about the best cars (THE BEST), and what we wouldn't give to drive them. Today I drive a minivan. Nothing wrong with that. Now that I'm older, I care more about fuel efficiency and safety than speed. Learn more about your ad

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14:03

Were US Diplomats in Cuba Victims of a Sonic...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/06

The 007-meets-the-X-Files adventures in Cuba continue. Last week the US Department of State recalled non-emergency personnel and families home from the embassy in Havana, citing injuries and illness among 21 people—“hearing loss, dizziness, headache, fatigue, cognitive issues, and difficulty sleeping” according to a statement from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Those 21 people weren’t just cultural attaches. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:07

The Physics Nobel Goes to the Detection of Ripples in...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/05

The way the Nobel Committee tells it, the story of this year’s physics prize begins like a certain 1970s space opera. “Once upon a time, a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, two massive black holes engaged in a deadly dance,” said physicist and Nobel committee member Olga Botner at today's prize announcement. The pair spiraled toward each other, colliding to form an even bigger black hole with a mass 62 times that of Earth's sun. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:07

The Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes to Your Body's...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/10/04

Today, the Nobel committee kicked off its 2017 season by awarding the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to three scientists for their discoveries of the molecular mechanisms that control circadian rhythms. The Americans—Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young—used fruit flies to isolate a gene that dictates the biological clock ticking away inside all living organisms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:38

After Hurricane Maria, Could Puerto Rico Be at Risk...

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2017/10/03

After the deluge comes the deluge. First Hurricane Irma raked Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands in early September, and then two weeks later Hurricane Maria did the same, leaving 3.5 million people in Puerto Rico without clean water, communications, or electricity, amid damaged buildings and floodwaters. Aid is finally reaching the islands—fuel for generators, water, medical supplies, food—but disasters always breed disasters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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