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A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano
Dec 01, 2022On this week’s show: A medieval German cemetery yields clues to Jewish migrations in Europe, and supercomputers help researchers estimate magma under Yellowstone First up this week on the podcast, we...
Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?
Nov 24, 2022On this week’s show: Meta’s algorithm tackles both language and strategy in a board game, and measuring how much water people use on a daily basis First up this week on the podcast, artificial intell...
Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus
Nov 17, 2022On this week’s show: The potentially harmful effects of prehistoric ivory on present-day elephants, and replacing polymers in electronics with fungal tissue First up this week on the podcast, we hear...
Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators
Nov 10, 2022On this week’s show: How sci-fi writer Kurt Vonnegut foresaw many of today’s ethical dilemmas, and 70 years of tunas, billfishes, and sharks as sentinels of global ocean health First up this week on ...
Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy
Nov 03, 2022On this week’s show: How urban spaces can help conserve species, and testing a gene therapy strategy for epilepsy in mice First up on the podcast, we explore urban ecology’s roots in Berlin. Contribu...
Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction
Oct 27, 2022On this week’s show: Cheaper launches could make solar power satellites a reality, machine learning helps chemists make small organic molecules, and a book on the extinction of foods First up on the ...
Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet
Oct 20, 2022On this week’s show: How some snakes have adapted to the extremes of height and temperature on the Tibetan Plateau, and giving low-power sensors more processing power First up on the podcast, tough s...
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
Oct 13, 2022On this week’s show: Rising waters and intense storms make siting high-performance computer centers a challenge, and matching up spider silk DNA with spider silk properties (Main Text) First up o...
Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores
Oct 06, 2022On this week’s show: A study suggests paleontological research has directly benefited from the conflict in Myanmar, and how dormant bacterial spores keep track of their environment First up on the po...
Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog
Sep 29, 2022On this week’s show: Protecting a body of water by giving it a legal identity, intentional destruction of methane by the oil and gas industry is less efficient than predicted, and the latest book in o...