Podcast: Human pheromones lightly debunked, ignoring cyberattacks, and designer chromosomes

This week, how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a good idea to ignore some cyberattacks, and new questions about the existence of human pheromones with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Sarah Richardson joins Alexa Billow to discuss a global project to build a set of working yeast chromosomes from the ground up.

Read Sarah Richardson’s research in Science.

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Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com.

[Image: Drew Gurian; Music: Jeffrey Cook]

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