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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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8:42

A Patent Decision on Crispr Gene Editing Favors MIT

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/17

The fight over who owns the most promising technique for editing genes-cutting and pasting the stuff of life to cure disease and advance scientific knowledge-has been a rough one. A team on the West Coast, at UC Berkeley, filed patents on the method, Crispr-Cas9; a team on the East Coast, based at MIT and the Broad Institute, filed their own patents in 2014 after Berkeley's, but got them granted first. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:03

How Does a $575 Life-Saving Drug Jump to $4,500?...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/16

Your friend is on the floor unconscious. The culprit: a heroin overdose. You panic, but then remember a gadget that can save her life. She told you where it would be if this ever happened, didn’t she? You run to her bedside table, fling open the drawer, and grab the compact purple and yellow injector. After you pull off the lid, the device speaks, telling you to place the plastic case on your friend’s thigh, press down, and dispense the life-saving drug inside. Learn more about your ad choices

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6:27

Robo-Telescopes Capture the Last Gasp of a Dying Star

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/15

A very long time ago in a faraway galaxy, a star blew up. When the flash of light finally reached Earth on October 6, 2013, nobody noticed. Not at first. Three hours of supernova photons streamed by before an old telescope perched on a mountain north of San Diego started snapping pics. The 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope is a 60-year old veteran of astronomical missions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:15

How Much Energy Does Iron Fist Pack Into His...

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2017/02/14

I am super pumped up about the Iron Fist series that will premiere on Netflix soon. At this point, all I really have is this trailer-but that has never stopped me before. Why would it stop me now? If you don't know anything about Iron Fist, let me say one important thing. Other than being a martial arts guy, he also has the ability to make this superpowered punch. (That's what's going on in the trailer when his hand gets all glowing and stuff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:01

Squid Communicate With a Secret, Skin-Powered Alphabet

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2017/02/13

Squid and their cephalopod brethren have been the inspiration for many a science fiction creature. Their slippery appendages, huge proportions, and inking abilities can be downright shudder-inducing. (See: Arrival.) But you should probably be more concerned by the cephalopod’s huge brain—which not only helps it solve tricky puzzles, but also lets it converse in its own sign language. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:56

Earth’s Best Defense Against Killer Asteroids Needs Cash

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/10

Ed Rivera-Valentin grew up in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, less than 15 minutes away from the jungle home of a 1,000-foot-wide radio telescope. When he was four or five, his parents brought him to the observatory for the first time. He saw the telescope’s mesh dish, resting inside a huge sinkhole in the soft rock formations that shape the region. If he had walked around the Arecibo radio telescope’s dish, he would have clocked more than a mile. The young Rivera-Valentin was awed. Learn more about your ad

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13:13

The Secret to Running a Faster Marathon? Slow Down

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/09

As part of WIRED’s exclusive look at Breaking2, Nike’s revolutionary attempt to break the two-hour marathon mark, our writer is using the same training regime, apparel, and expertise as Nike’s three elite athletes—including Olympic gold medalist Eliud Kipchoge—to try to achieve his own personal milestone: a sub-90-minute half-marathon. This is the second in a series of monthly updates on his progress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:21

Physicists, Lasers, and an Airplane: Taking Aim at...

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2017/02/08

On a clear night last September, at a little Ontario airport, two pilots, two scientists, and an engineer took off in a small plane. They’d pulled the left-side door off its hinges, and a telescope poked out of the portal—not at the night sky, but at the ground below. The team was about to play a very difficult, very windy game of catch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:43

A Blackjack Superstar Explains the Odds of the...

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2017/02/07

Last night, football fans witnessed the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. With eight minutes and 30 seconds left in the third quarter, the New England Patriots were down 28-3. But they inched forward until they pushed the game into overtime—a first for the Super Bowl—and Patriots quarterback Tom Brady marched his team down the field to win Super Bowl LI. It was an epic turnaround—but it wasn’t really the Patriots that made it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:57

Doctors and Patients Reel After Trump’s Immigration Ban

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/06

Azi Tourkamani is eight months pregnant and working 12-hour shifts at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Syracuse, New York. She’s a resident doctor in internal medicine. Most days she has so many patients she doesn’t have time to stop and eat lunch; she eats as she walks from floor to floor treating patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:42

Spill-Proof Cups Aren’t Magic. They’re Physics!

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/03

They call it the Mighty Mug-and the idea is that it isn't easily knocked over. Of course, you can tip just about anything over if you try hard enough. But really, how does this work? Let me be clear: I haven't actually played with a Mighty Mug-so most of this is just physics-based speculation. It seems the key component of this mug is some type of suction cup on the bottom. When you put the cup down, a rubber seal forms with a smooth table surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:40

Ever Had a Really Long Acid Trip? Now Science Knows Why

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2017/02/02

Few tropes in modern America are as enduring as the LSD Trip Gone Far Too Long. It should all be over after a few hours, right? OK maybe not. Eight? Ten? Probably should have cleared more of my calendar. Even though science has long had an intimate relationship with LSD-chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized it way back in the '30s-why the drug insists on producing such lengthy hallucinations hasn't been so clear. Until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:23

Trump’s Muslim Ban Isn’t Just Inhumane—It’ll Make...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/02/01

Alireza Edraki spends weekends in the lab. It’s what he does. For the past three years, test tubes full of bacteria have been his constant companions. Not this weekend. “I’m so stressed out that I can’t work,” he says. Edraki is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts’ medical school in Worcester. You know Crispr/CAS-9, the gene-editing technology that’s in all the headlines lately? That’s what Edraki works on. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:42

So You Wanna Get Into Physics. Here Are Three Tips...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/31

For many, it's the start of a new semester of physics labs. That means there are new students in that introductory course. Of course, no one is really 100 percent ready to start these labs-but that's OK. Here are three big ideas that I find students need to work on to be successful in lab. Converting Units This is a pretty easy problem to fix, but I think I should go over it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:18

First Human-Pig Chimera Is a Step Toward Custom Organs

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2017/01/30

Every day, 22 people in America die while waiting for an organ transplant. But when scientists can grow replacement livers or kidneys or pancreases inside of animal hosts, medicine’s organ shortage may end. That’s the hope anyway—and this week there’s more reason to hope than ever that it might become reality. The key to producing human organs in other animals is the chimera, a mixture of cells from more than one species growing together as a single animal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:34

How Being Bored Out of Your Mind Makes You More Creative

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2017/01/27

“I’m dying of Boredom,” complains the young wife, Yelena, in Chekhov’s 1897 play Uncle Vanya. “I don’t know what to do.” Of course, if Yelena were around today, we know how she’d alleviate her boredom: She’d pull out her smartphone and find something diverting, like BuzzFeed or Twitter or Clash of Clans. If you have a planet’s worth of entertainment in your pocket, it’s easy to stave off ennui. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:12

Sorry, But Speed Reading Won’t Help You Read More

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/26

The late Nora Ephron famously felt badly about her neck, but that's minor compared to how people feel about their reading. We think everyone else reads faster than we do, that we should be able to speed up, and that it would be a huge advantage if we could. You could read as much as a book critic for the New York Times. You could finish Infinite Jest. You could read all of Wikipedia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:26

It’s Time to Stand Up for the Climate—and for...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/25

During his campaign for president, Donald Trump promised to end action on climate change and kill the climate treaty adopted in 2015 in Paris. To truly understand why that’s such a big deal—perhaps the biggest deal ever—you need to think about a few things. Yes, you need to think about the oft-repeated but nonetheless true and alarming statistics: 2014 was the hottest year ever recorded till 2015 snatched the crown—till 2016 obliterated the record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:16

Soft Robot Exosuits Will Give You Springier Steps

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2017/01/24

Robots are coming to take your jog. Or, at least, your walk. Each spring in your step costs your body calories. Robotic assistants could help ease fatigue for people who earn their living on their feet—or who have been hobbled by disease. But many robotic exoskeletons are so bulky that they actually cause wearers more fatigue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:51

Physics Explains How (But Not Why) Humans Can Throw...

Science, Spoken ·

2017/01/23

Why would you throw a washing machine? Who knows. Maybe that machine lost your socks. Maybe you have something against washing machines. You could have any number of reasons. But here it is-a washing machine throwing contest, and even a world record distance for washing machine throws. (4.13 meters, Zydrunas Savickas.) But when I see something like this, I just wonder how hard it would be to throw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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