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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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5:39

Apple Pay Will Change the Way Your Brain Thinks About...

Science, Spoken ·

2016/11/23

Drunk shoppers beware: Impulse buying online just got even easier. With Apple’s new MacBook Pro launched last month, all you have to do is tap your finger to the Touch ID scanner located on the Touch Bar to buy—no more searching through your wallet for the right card, no more typing in three-digit security codes and expiration dates. On the front end, the new method is faster and probably more secure than using stored credit card info online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:17

China Used Crispr to Fight Cancer in a Real, Live Human

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2016/11/22

Do you remember President-elect Trump holding forth on the campaign trail about "China beating us at our own game"? Well, it's true, as long as the game in question is editing human DNA using Crispr/Cas9. China is now using Crispr-edited cells in living, breathing human beings. Last month, Chinese scientists at Sichuan University injected cancer-fighting, Crispr-modified white bloodcells into a patient suffering from metastatic lung cancer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:16

The Biologist Trying to Make the First Pregnancy Test...

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2016/11/21

Earlier this year, James Gelsleichter got a call from the Bahamas. A group of researchers had been tracking the movements of some oceanic whitetip sharks off the coast of Cat Island, a long, thin stretch of land in the center of the Bahamas. Maybe, they thought, the sharks were moving certain directions because they were pregnant and looking for a place to give birth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:41

You Can’t Just Link Batteries Willy Nilly and Expect...

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2016/11/18

Anyone who has taken introductory physics will recognize this famous question: Why can't you start your car with 8 AAA batteries instead of one 12 volt car battery? Eight AAA batteries do add up to 12 volts, but they still can't provide enough electrical current to run the starter motor. But that's not the whole story. Any battery has a limit on the maximum current it can produce. To explain why, I'll make a model to represent a real battery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:51

Can’t Imagine Shapes in 4 Dimensions? Just Print Them...

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2016/11/17

Last spring, mathematician Henry Segerman found a peculiar post on Facebook. It was by a programmer who had could not conjure mental images—a condition called aphantasia. Segerman immediately recognized that he lives with the same limitation. “When I try to visualize something, I don’t see anything,” he says. Which is curious—because Segerman, 37, has made a career out of visualizing complex mathematical shapes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:43

Legal Weed Has Arrived. Get Ready for the Budweiser...

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2016/11/16

Yesterday, four US states voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Casual smokers in Massachusetts, Nevada, and California are now free from the social stigma—and threat of jail time—that had clouded cannabis use for decades. (Maine is still up for grabs; Arizona voters kept the status quo.) In these states, downlow smokers will become legal consumers, and formerly clandestine growers and sellers will start responding to the demands of bona fide mass market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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12:17

To Build A Viable HIV Vaccine, Start from the...

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2016/11/15

An HIV diagnosis is a nightmare, but it is no longer a death sentence. Someday, vaccines might bat the virus out of your system without you ever knowing you’d been exposed. If successful, such a vaccine would effectively cure AIDS. Someday, maybe. So scientists are working on it. Like yesterday: Researchers published results to a promising study on primates infected with SIV, a monkey version of HIV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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13:29

A Groundbreaking 30-Year Old Evolutionary Experiment...

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2016/11/14

Early in his career, the decorated biologist Richard Lenski thought he might be forced to evolve. After his postdoctoral research grant was canceled, Lenski began to look tentatively at other options. With one child and a second on the way, Lenski attended a seminar about using specific types of data in an actuarial context—the same type of data he had worked with as a graduate student. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:53

2016’s Election Data Hero Isn’t Nate Silver. It’s Sam...

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2016/11/11

Forget Nate Silver. There’s a new king of the presidential election data mountain. His name is Sam Wang, Ph.D. Haven’t heard of him just yet? Don’t worry. You will. Because Wang has sailed True North all along, while Silver has been cautiously trying to tack his FiveThirtyEight data sailboat (weighted down with ESPN gold bars) through treacherous, Category-Five-level-hurricane headwinds in what has easily been the craziest presidential campaign in the modern political era. Learn more about your ad

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8:01

How NASA Will Choose Astronauts for Its Incredible...

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2016/11/10

Christine Corbett Moran was in Antarctica when she got the news: NASA wanted to interview her, in person, for the next class of astronauts. Moran is a coder and theoretical astrophysicist, and she'd been holed up in the southernmost part of the world for 10 months, studying the echoes of the Big Bang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:34

Physics Says This Is the Best Way to Deal With Hot...

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2016/11/09

Like many people, I enjoy gettinga nice cup of coffee. Not that silly sugary stuff like a double-whip, non-fat, vanilla bean, espresso, iced with a twist of lime. No, I get plain old boring black coffee. But there's a problem: It's almost always too hot to drink right away. When life gives you coffee that's too hot, you must find the best way to cool it. I have two methods to cool off my coffee. Method No.1 is to remove the lid (coffee usually comes with a lidso you don't spill it). Learn more about

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6:43

A Material From Shapeshifting Planes Could Heal Human...

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2016/11/08

What generates voltage when you warm it up, push on it, or blow on it? Get your mind out of the gutter. The correct answer is polyvinylidene fluoride, a material NASA researchers have refined for use in morphing aircraft that shapeshift in response to their environment. But wait! There’s more: It can also kickstart the human body’s healing process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:28

The Dismal Science of the Standing Rock Pipeline...

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2016/11/07

The protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota are, on the surface, about water quality. The pipeline’s planned route—which closely mirrors the path of the would-be Keystone XL pipeline—goes right through the tribe’s water source. And like Keystone XL (which President Obama vetoed this February), the Dakota Access Pipeline has taken on larger significance as a conduit for worsened global climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:06

Electron Microscopes Can Finally See in Wonderful Color

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2016/11/04

Imagine a Where’s Waldo book with nothing butblack and white pictures. Good luck using his candy-stripesweater as a visual cue. Now you know what it’s like trying to find a virus on a greyscale microscopic image. Microbiologists have dealt with this problem for decades, because when things get small, things go dark. Photons, bits of light essential to discerning color, are too clunky to resolve anything much smaller than say, a synapse connecting two neurons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:47

How NASA Got Every Last Piece of Pluto Data Down From...

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2016/10/31

Last summer, as it sped through the Pluto system, the New Horizons spacecraft only had a few hours to pack its memory banks with as much data about the dwarf planetary system as possible. On October 25, the last few hundred bits of that data finally arrived in one of NASA‘s deep space radio dishes. For posterity’s sake, take a moment and remember that before the flyby—a mere 15 months ago—the dwarf planet was a pixellated blur. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:20

Molten Salt Reactors Could Soon Help Power Earth—And...

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2016/10/28

If we get our way and really put humans on Mars in the coming decades, they’re going to need power. NASA has had concrete plants to send people to the Red Planet since 2010—with target dates in the 2030s, while Elon Musk thinks SpaceX can make it to Mars faster. But no matter who gets there first, the power problem remains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:32

The Lava That Doesn’t Erupt Anymore

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2016/10/26

Volcanoes have been a persistent feature on Earth since the planet condensed out of the primordial nebula of our solar system. The scale and style of that volcanism has changed dramatically over that 4.5 billion years—heck, after Thera bumped into proto-Earth to form the Moon, we probably had a planet-wide lava lake as the molten Earth coalesced and cooled from the collision. However, we lack much of a record of that tumultuous time beyond a few zircon found in younger sediments. Learn more about

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7:22

China wants a Moon base, but first it needs two...

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2016/10/21

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9:22

Facing Climate Change, Tanzania Can’t Afford to Fear...

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2016/10/20

Last week, Tanzania planted its first ever genetically modified crop—a drought-resistant white corn hybrid. Government researchers will spend the next two to three years monitoring the plants for safety and effectiveness at growing in perilously dry conditions. It’s a notable milestone, given the nation’s longstanding lack of enthusiasm towards biotechnology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:57

Obama Geeks Out Over a Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm...

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2016/10/19

When Nathan Copeland got into a car accident in 2004, he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed in both arms and both legs. Eventually, Copeland got a prosthetic-but one that is very different from most anyone else's out there. Copeland is the first person in the world to use a system created by DARPA and the National Science Foundation, which allows him to "experience" the sensation of touch via a special robotic prosthesis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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