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  • Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints

    Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints
    2025/01/09
    First up this week, as preprint publications ramped up during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, so did media attention for these pre–peer-review results. But what do the readers of news reports based on preprints know about them? Associate News Editor Jeff Brainard joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss studies that look at the public perception of preprints in the news and how to inject skepticism into stories about them. Next, placing tiny tags on bats to follow them across central Europe. Former Science intern Edward Hurme—now a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Migration at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior—revisits the podcast after 13 years. He discusses the difficulty of tracking bats as they fly long distances at night and what new tagging technology is revealing about their migration patterns. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Jeff Brainard
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    34 分
  • On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals

    On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals
    2025/01/02
    First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox talks with host Sarah Crespi about truffle hunting for science. Wilcox accompanied Heather Dawson, a Ph.D. student at the University of Oregon, and her sister  Hilary Dawson, a postdoctoral researcher at Australian National University, on a hunt for nonculinary truffles—the kind you don’t eat—with the help of a specially trained dog. These scientists and their dog are digging up many new species of these hard-to-find fungi with the ultimate aim of cataloging and conserving them. Next, producer Ariana Remmel talks with R. Keller Kopf, an ecologist and lecturer at Charles Darwin University, about the importance of conserving older plants and animals. For example, as certain fish age they produce many more eggs than younger fish. Or in a forest, older trees may provide different ecosystem services than saplings. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Christie Wilcox; Ariana Remmel About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast
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    30 分
  • Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds

    Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds
    2024/12/19
    First up this week, Online News Editor David Grimm shares a sampling of stories that hit big with our audience and staff in this year, from corpse-eating pets to the limits of fanning ourselves. Next, host Sarah Crespi tackles some unfinished business with Producer Kevin McLean. Three former guests talk about where their research has taken them since their first appearances on the podcast. Erick Lundgren, a researcher at the Centre for Open Science and Research Synthesis at the University of Alberta, revisits his paper on donkeys that dig wells in deserts. Lundgren first appeared on the podcast in April 2021. Katie Hampson, a professor of infectious disease ecology at the University of Glasgow, discusses where her Tanzanian rabies research has spread. Hampson first appeared on the podcast in April 2022. Ashley Thomas, an assistant professor of psychology in the Laboratory for Development Studies at Harvard University, talks about why it’s important to plumb the depths of baby minds and the big questions behind her work on children’s understanding of social relationships. Thomas first appeared on the podcast in January 2022. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; David Grimm
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    39 分
  • Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates

    Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates
    2024/12/12
    First up this week, Breakthroughs Editor Greg Miller joins producer Meagan Cantwell to discuss Science’s 2024 Breakthrough of the Year. They also discuss some of the other scientific achievements that turned heads this year, from ancient DNA and autoimmune therapy, to precision pesticides, and the discovery of a new organelle. Next, host Sarah Crespi is joined by news staffers to catch up on threads they’ve been following all year. First a bumpy road for certain medicines. Editor Kelly Servick discusses the regulatory hurdles for psychedelic drugs and immunotherapy treatments for Alzheimer’s disease. Then we hear from Staff Writer Paul Voosen about why scientists think this will be the hottest year on record. Finally, what happened with fusion power this year? Staff Writer Daniel Clery brings updates. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Greg Miller; Meagan Cantwell; Kelly Servick; Daniel Clery; Paul Voosen
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    46 分
  • Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech

    Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech
    2024/12/05
    First up this week, freelance science journalist Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss making open-access journals from South and Latin America visible to the rest of the world by creating platforms that help with the publishing process and discovery of journal articles. This story is part of a News series about global equity in science. Next on the show, departing Physical Sciences Editor Brent Grocholski discusses highlights from his career at Science, particularly his work on cooling technologies. Related papers: ● A self-regenerative heat pump based on a dual-functional relaxor ferroelectric polymer ● High cooling performance in a double-loop electrocaloric heat pump ● High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system ● Colossal electrocaloric effect in an interface-augmented ferroelectric polymer ● Sizing up caloric devices This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Brent Grocholski; Sofia Moutinho About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast
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    32 分
  • Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted

    Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted
    2024/11/28
    First up this week, making electronics greener with leaves. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox about using the cellulose skeletons of leaves to create robust, biodegradable backings for computer chips. This sustainable approach can be used for printing circuits and making organic light-emitting diodes and if widely adopted, could massively reduce the carbon footprint of electronics. Next on the show, Kevin Hatala, a biology professor at Chatham University, joins producer Meagan Cantwell to discuss fossil footprints unearthed in the Turkana Basin of Kenya. A 13-step long track with three perpendicular footprints likely show two different species of early humans, Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei, walked on the same shorelines. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Meagan Cantwell; Christie Wilcox
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    28 分
  • Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity

    Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity
    2024/11/21
    First up this week, where on Earth do people live the longest? What makes those places or people so special? Genes, diet, life habits? Or could it be bad record keeping and statistical flukes? Freelance science journalist Ignacio Amigo joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss the controversies around so-called blue zones—regions in the world where clusters of people appear to have extreme longevity. Next on the show, producer Kevin Mclean talks with Dorian Houser, director of conservation biology at the National Marine Mammal Foundation. Houser and colleagues temporarily captured juvenile minke whales and tested their hearing. It turns out these baleen whales have more sensitive hearing than predicted from vocalizations and anatomical modeling, which could change our understanding of how they are affected by underwater noise pollution. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Ignacio Amigo; Kevin McLean
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    38 分
  • Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains

    Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains
    2024/11/14
    First up this week, a ship that flips for science. Sean Cummings, a freelance science journalist, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about the resurrection of the Floating Instrument Platform (R/V FLIP), a research vessel built by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s and retired in 2023. FLIP is famous for turning vertically 90° so the bulk of the long ship is underwater, stabilizing it for data gathering. Additional audio from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Watch FLIP flipping here. Next on the show, viewing past lives using bones from medieval London cemeteries. Samantha Yaussy, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at James Madison University, joins Sarah to talk about a bony paradox. Do lesions or scars on buried bones mean the person was frail and ill when they lived or were they strong and resilient because they survived long enough for disease to damage their bones? This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Sean Cummings
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    32 分