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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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7:47

What if Quantum Computers Used Hard Drives Made of DNA?

Science, Spoken ·

2017/03/17

You’ve heard the hype: The quantum computer revolution is coming. Physicists say these devices will be fast enough to break every encryption method banks use today. Their artificial intelligence will be so advanced that you could load in the periodic table and the laws of quantum mechanics, and they could design the most efficient solar cell to date. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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18:32

Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone

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2017/03/16

On a plate, a single banana seems whimsical—yellow and sweet, contained in its own easy-to-open peel. It is a charming breakfast luxury as silly as it is delicious and ever-present. Yet when you eat a banana the flavor on your tongue has complex roots, equal parts sweetness and tragedy. In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece of a vast empire of banana plantations run by the American-owned United Fruit Company. Learn more about your ad

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9:00

The Feds Are Spending Millions to Help You Survive...

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2017/03/15

Last week, as tens of thousands of US and South Korean soldiers gathered at a base in Iwakuni, Japan for an annual joint military exercise, North Korea fired four ballistic missiles from Pyongyang into the sea off Japan’s northwest coast. In a world where the US is headed by a Twigger-happy political neophyte and the risk of a Cold War reboot looms larger with each Wikileaks disclosure, this demonstration wasn’t just an empty display of dictatorial propaganda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:01

Want to Make It as a Biologist? Better Learn to Code

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2017/03/14

Namrata Udeshi knows how to globally analyze the proteomics of human cells. You’d be forgiven for having no idea what that means or why it matters—it’s a complicated technique that you’d need years of post-graduate training to master. But for now, just know it’s important for disease research. Udeshi is a group leader in a proteomics lab at MIT’s Broad Institute, working long days to understand the intricacies of cellular life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:00

Telemedicine Could Be Great, if People Stopped Using...

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2017/03/13

These days, more people are working from home, shopping from home, and yes, even seeing the doctor from home. Last year more than a million people traded the waiting room for the comfort of their own couch—which sure beats thumbing through a sad collection of creased magazines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:56

Ben Carson Just Got a Whole Lot Wrong About the Brain

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2017/03/10

Today, in his first speech to his staff at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, newly minted Secretary Ben Carson delivered an extemporaneous disquisition on the unparalleled marvel that is the human brain and memory. “There is nothing in this universe that even begins to compare with the human brain and what it is capable of,” he began. “Billions and billions of neurons, hundreds of billions of interconnections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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15:26

The Beauty of Mathematics: It Can Never Lie to You

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2017/03/09

A few years back, a prospective doctoral student sought out Sylvia Serfaty with some existential questions about the apparent uselessness of pure math. Serfaty, then newly decorated with the prestigious Henri Poincaré Prize, won him over simply by being honest and nice. “She was very warm and understanding and human,” said Thomas Leblé, now an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:23

Let’s Do the Physics Of Knocking an Asteroid Into the...

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2017/03/08

I don't know how to start this analysis without a spoiler. I can try settingit up with ageneric physics question, but if you are behind on the excellent SyFy program The Expanse, you may want to walk away and do something else, like read about why flying at light speed is pretty much impossible unless you're Han Solo. Still with me? OK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:43

You Spend 5 Percent of Your Day Outside. Try Making...

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2017/03/07

This storyoriginally appeared on Gristand is part of theClimate Deskcollaboration. For two decades, Florence Williams could sit on her porch at night and watch the alpenglow on the Rocky Mountains. Then she moved from remote Colorado to Washington, DC, and started noticing the changes. “I felt disoriented, overwhelmed, depressed,” she writes in her recent book, The Nature Fix. “My mind had trouble focusing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:35

MIT’s Crispr Guy Braves Enemy Territory at UC Berkeley

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2017/03/06

UC Berkeley undergraduate Megha Majumder was fired up. Just a few weeks after Feng Zhang, MIT, and the Broad Institute won the interference proceeding over Crispr/Cas9 patents against UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna, solidifying Zhang’s patent claims and the vast rewards they promise, Majumder learned of Zhang’s upcoming public talk at her college. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:31

Italy’s Etna Volcano Throws Lava Bombs in Its First...

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2017/03/03

After one of the most quiet years in decades, Etna has decided to make 2017 a little more exciting. Early this week, the volcano had a moderate strombolian eruption, what the folks who monitor Etna call a “paroxysm,” that produced a lava fountain over the summit of the volcano. Strombolian eruptions(named after nearby Stromboli)are caused by gas-rich magma reaching the surface and erupting explosively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:21

California Needs Atmospheric Rivers. But Like, Not...

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2017/03/02

California likes whiplash weather. The state’s greenery, rivers, and dams are used to dry summer and wet winters. But recently—as the land has gone from parched and on fire to a complete deluge—things have gotten out of hand. From the strained Oroville dam to the flooding in San Jose last weekend, all this water, water everywhere has a single meteorological source: atmospheric rivers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:02

SpaceX Plans to Launch Humans Around the Moon in 2018

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2017/03/01

SpaceX is planning to send two private individuals on a trip around the moon sometime next year. In a phone briefing today, CEO Elon Musk gave details of the mission, which would use two of SpaceX‘s long-awaited technologies: a crew-rated capsule, the Crew Dragon, and the high-powered Falcon Heavy rocket. The two mystery astronauts will be packed inside the capsule, stacked on top of a Falcon Heavy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:57

Inside the Extreme Machine That Mimics Bombs and...

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2017/02/28

It's 5:15 a.m. and dark when I drive over Raton Pass, the 7,835-foot-high saddle right at the boundary between Colorado and New Mexico. Animal crossing signs whiz by my window: first a clip-art bear, then an elk, then a deer. "Watch out" is an apt way to enter the state, particularly on this trip: New Mexico is the birthplace of the nuclear bomb and the site of its first test. That initial blast occurred southeast of Socorro, under the auspices of Los Alamos National Lab-led Manhattan Project. Learn

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6:26

7 Earth-Like Worlds Orbit a Star So Cool, You Didn’t...

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2017/02/27

Forty light years away, a small, orange star called Trappist-1 sits unnoticed in the sky. You can’t see it with your bare eyes—it burns colder than the brightly shining stars that fill the night sky, the ones that have inspired millions of people to imagine life beyond Earth. But most stars in the galaxy are neither big nor bright. And it’s those abundant, dim dwarfs that might actually be the best place to look for worlds capable of supporting life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:39

Forget Weather Apps: Measure the Wind Yourself With...

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2017/02/24

One of the best ways to measure wind speed is to usean anemometer. You could go out and buy one, but I find it much more fun to build my own. There areseveral types of anemometer tochoose from, but I am going to build one that uses electromagnetic induction. Normally, we think of electric potential as something you can get from a battery. But you also can get it from induction. It turns out that changing magnetic field also creates an electric potential. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:35

A Wet Winter Is Overwhelming California’s Ancient...

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2017/02/23

Donna Harold isn’t worried about the river. “Some of our neighbors panicked and left,” she says, “but we stayed behind.” She turns and shushes the pair of toddlers squabbling in the red wagon behind her. Late Sunday night, state officials sent out an evacuation order saying that Lake Oroville—30 miles north, feeding into the Feather River that runs through Harold’s hometown of Marysville—was hemorrhaging water and in danger of bursting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:13

Flying at Light Speed Is Pretty Much...

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2017/02/22

SPOILER ALERT. I'm going to talk about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. If you haven't seen it by now, I have a feeling that you either don't really care about the movie or you don't care about spoilers. But don't worry, I'm not going to give away anything major. Still-you have been warned. In one scene in the movie, Han Solo and Finn (oh, and Chewbacca too) are trying to get on the surface of the Star Killer to disable the shields. Here is the important dialogue as they approach the planet. Learn more

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6:58

How to Avoid Getting Tricked into Assassinating Someone

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/21

Let's say you find yourself in the airport in Kuala Lumpur. A stranger approaches with a spray bottle and a fistful of money and points to a man who looks more than a bit like the half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. Must be a coincidence, you think. The stranger explains that she'd like you to star in a hilarious prank TV show that asks ordinary citizens to spray random people with water for the lulz. What's the risk, right? Right? Wrong. Congratulations. Learn more about your ad

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4:40

Why Is Oroville a Big Deal? Look at All the Places...

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2017/02/20

Lake Oroville contains about 3.2 million acre feet of water, making it the second-largest reservoir in California. It provides water for more than 22 million people and 700,000 acres of farmland. The lakenearly ruptured this week, swollen by a constant deluge of rain that overwhelmed the spillways and threatened to flood everything downstream. Keeping California properly hydrated requires some of the most complicated plumbing in the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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