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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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6:50

String Theory’s Weirdest Ideas Finally Make...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/06/12

The robot is building a tesseract. He motions at a glowing cube floating before him, and an identical cube emerges. He drags it to the left, but the two cubes stay connected, strung together by glowing lines radiating from their corners. The robot lowers its hands, and the cubes coalesce into a single shape—with 24 square faces, 16 vertices, and eight connected cubes existing in four dimensions. A tesseract. This isn’t a video game. It’s a classroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:18

Want to Understand Creativity? Enlist an AI Collaborator

Science, Spoken ·

2017/06/09

A metronome ticks time. Not for the student, but for the teacher, who plays a short piano melody. Without missing a measure, the student follows with an improvised, yet derivative, cello run. The student plays the same run again, and then again. “I have it looping, actually, so you can hear the response over and over again,” says the teacher, Jesse Engel, a computer scientist with Google Brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:38

The Physics of Bullets Vs. Wonder Woman’s Bracelets

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2017/06/08

I must admit to being pretty excited about Wonder Woman.Although I read a lot of comic books when I was younger, I favored Marvel over DC, so everything I know about Wonder Woman came from the TV show starring Linda Carter. It sounds likeWonder Woman might be the best superhero movie so far. Like all superhero movies, Wonder Woman provides an opportunity to do a littlephysics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:12

Crispr’s Next Big Debate: How Messy Is Too Messy?

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2017/06/07

When it comes toCrispr, the bacterial wünderenzyme that allows scientists to precisely edit DNA, no news is too small to stir up some drama. On Tuesday morning, doctors from Columbia, Stanford, and the University of Iowa published a one-page letterto the editor of Nature Methods—an obscure but high-profile journal—describing something downright peculiar. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:26

Wearables Reveal the Secret Lives of Farm Animals

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2017/06/06

The Internet of Animals has arrived. No, not like cat-stalking zucchini gifs and skateboarding bulldog snaps (those are so 2015). Across the country, farmers are building actual connected networks of cows, pigs, and chickens. Using everything from microphones, accelerometers, and GPS trackers totemperature, glucose, and skin conductivity sensors, farmers can now track and monitor their flocks and herds with the flick of a finger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:05

Lyme Isn’t the Only Disease Ticks Are Spreading This...

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2017/06/05

It started with vomiting and a fever. But a few days later, five-month old Liam was in the emergency room, his tiny body gripped by hourly waves of seizures. X-rays and MRIs showed deep swelling in his brain. When an infectious disease specialist at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center diagnosed Liam with Powassan virus in November, he became the first recorded case in state history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:09

Trump’s Budget Forgets That Science Is Insurance for...

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2017/06/02

President Trump’s proposed 2018 budget will never actually determine how the government spends your money: Potus proposes and Congress disposes. But that’s no reason for relief. In fact, it makes this document even more of a nightmare. It doesn’t direct funding, but it does put the Trump administration’s underlying philosophy of governance on display. And it’s a harsh one. The science cuts make this most visible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:08

Eruptions Says Goodbye to WIRED

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2017/06/01

All good things must come to an end, and Eruptions on WIRED ends today. It has been a great 5-plus years of reporting on volcanoes here, but nothing lasts forever (even geologically). There are a pile of people to thank at WIRED for all the help I’ve gotten over the years: Nick Stockton, Nadia Drake, David Mosher, Katie Palmer, all the former WIRED Science bloggers, all the great folks at WIRED’s photo department, Katie Davies, and Adam Rogers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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29:15

One Man’s Quest to Make 20-Year-Old Rum in Just Six Days

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2017/05/31

From the outside, the Lost Spirits Distillery is just another boxy, early-20th-century building along the frayed edge of downtown Los Angeles. At first the inside appears similarly uninspired: deep and unfinished, littered with cardboard boxes, plumbing fittings, spools of wire, inscrutable items made of copper, a forklift. The usual crap. But what’s this then? A heavy black curtain bisects the industrial space from floor to ceiling, nearly from the front door to the back. Learn more about your ad

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7:10

Want Efficient Energy? Try Carbon Dioxide-Powered...

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2017/05/30

Carbon dioxide is one hell of a molecule. Perhaps you only know it as the stuff humans exhaleand plants inhale, or the primary culprit for climate change. But CO is capable of so much more. For instance, some engineers think it could help make the power industry a little greener. Now, you’re probably thinking this is atwist on carbon capture and storage. Nope. It’s about turbine generators—the enormous machines that convert heat into electricity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:03

This New Goldilocks Rocket Is Juuust Right for Small...

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2017/05/29

At 4 pm local time on May 25, Rocket Lab’s Electron stood on the company’s private launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Perched on the edge of an eroding cliff, pointing toward the sky from the southern tip of the world, the little rocket—just 56 feet tall and 4 feet wide, meant to carry similarly small satellites—looked ready for its first trip to space. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:06

Cool Spacewalk, Right? Get Ready for More—ISS Will...

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2017/05/26

When astronaut Peggy Whitson pushed out of the International Space Station’s airlock on Tuesday morning, she was floating into history. Stipulated, Whitson was already a badass. But this extra-vehicular activity—an EVA, NASAspeak for a spacewalk—was Whitson’s 10th. That ties her for the American record. A PhD biochemist before she became an astronaut, Whitson has now spent more time in space outside a spacecraft than all but two other human beings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:23

A Physicist Breaks Down One of Roger Moore’s Iconic...

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2017/05/25

Roger Moore died today. Now, you could argue that Moore was not the best James Bond, and I'd be willing to have that discussion at some point, but I think everyone agrees he made significant contributions to the 007 canon. I certainly think so, if only because when I was a kid, Moore was the James Bond I saw in movie theaters. Sean Connery was the James Bond who appeared on television with older, outdated gadgets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:54

Medicine Is Going Digital. The FDA Is Racing to Catch Up

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2017/05/24

When Bakul Patel started as a policy advisor in the US Food and Drug Administration in 2008, he could pretty much pinpoint when a product was going to land in frontof the reviewers in his division. Back when medical devices were heavy on the hardware—your pacemakers and your IUDs—it would take manufacturers years to get them ready for regulatory approval. FDA reviewers could keep up pretty well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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20:54

In Defense of the Reality of Time

Science, Spoken ·

2017/05/23

Physicists and philosophers seem to like nothing more than telling us that everything we thought about the world is wrong. They take a peculiar pleasure in exposing common sense as nonsense. But Tim Maudlin thinks our direct impressions of the world are a better guide to reality than we have been led to believe. Not that he thinks they always are. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:43

How Boring Old Pension Funds Might Curb Global Warming

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2017/05/22

If civilization still exists a centuryfrom now, Earth ought to throw a parade for pension funds. For all their fiscally conservative stodginess, the people tasked with safeguarding your nest egg are forcing the financial world to pay attention to climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:01

Scientists 3-D Print Mouse Ovaries That Actually Make...

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2017/05/19

Not all girls grow up to be mothers. Sometimes they choose not to be, and sometimes circumstances take those choices away. A superfluity of cancers and genetic diseases can destroy women’s ovaries. Or treatments like radiation—used to save a woman’s life—can render those egg-producing organs useless. Ovaries also mediate female hormones. Without them, young patients might never go through puberty; grown women could enter menopause early. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:20

Moms: Your Kids Hijacked Your Brain for Life

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2017/05/18

One day, a woman is spending her Saturdays doing her normal Saturday stuff—blueberry pancake brunch, curling up on the couch with the cat reading a novel, grabbing a beer with friends. By the next, her life is suddenly and completely about keeping a screaming, floppy, red-faced, cone-headed thing alive using fluids secreted from her chest. Happy birthday to that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:06

Your Fidget Spinner Is (Maybe) Making You Smarter

Science, Spoken ·

2017/05/17

Skip Suva is a fidgeter. When he worked at paper-intensive administrative jobs, he’d doodle incessantly; when he started a coding career last year, he took up fiddling with an SD-card reader that made pleasant snick noises. “Popping the SD card out and clicking it back in,” he laughs. His fidgeting can seem like a crazy tic, Suva admits. But it helps him focus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:49

An Electric Shock Could Keep Patients From Bleeding Out

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2017/05/16

Fifteen years ago, Kevin Tracey sat in a Washington DC conference room surrounded by officials from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They’d been paying the neurosurgeon to study how doctors could stimulate the vagus nerve—a long nerve that controls everything from blood pressure to sexual arousal—to treat inflammation associated with PTSD. Now they wanted to know: Could he stimulate anything else into submission? He searched his brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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