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Science Magazine Podcast

Science Magazine Podcast

Podcast: The science of the apocalypse, and abstract thinking in ducklings

27 min•14 juli 2016

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What do we know about humanity-ending catastrophes? Julia Rosen talks with Sarah Crespi about various doomsday scenarios and what science can do to save us. Alex Kacelnik talks about getting ducklings to recognize “same” and “different”—a striking finding that reveals conceptual thinking in very early life. Read the related research. [Image: Antone Martinho/Music: Jeffrey Cook]

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Studying the changing of AI language inside swarms, how orangutans learn to forage, and an astrophysicist talks about loss

Can ‘assisted migration’ save forests? And the role of philosophy in science

Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization, and breaking barriers to education

Sex-reversing frogs, and Europe’s rising rates of a deadly tick-borne disease

Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas

Why tracing cyclosporiasis is so tough, and a digestible probe for the microbiome

A vest for blocking cosmic rays, and updates on NIH funding

Did meat or fruit give people big brains, and protecting bison diversity using ancient DNA

AI’s influence on society, measuring muscles, and a Crick biography

Death in a gene-editing trial, and insect larvae surviving in deep waters

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