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**Science, Quickly**

Tune in every week for quick, fascinating new developments and dives in the world of science.

Latest Episodes:

Science Finally Has a Good Idea about Why We Stutter Apr 13, 2022

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A glitch in speech initiation gives rise to the repetition that characterizes stuttering.

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Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast Apr 12, 2022

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In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

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Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Corals Apr 08, 2022

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Think of the process as a kind of marine fecal transplant—except the restorative bacteria do not come from stool; they come from other corals.

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The History of the Milky Way Comes into Focus Apr 05, 2022

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By dating nearly a quarter-million stars, astronomers were able to reconstruct the history of our galaxy—and they say it has lived an “enormously sheltered life.”

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Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27 Apr 01, 2022

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

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New Research Decodes the Sea Cow's Hidden Language Mar 30, 2022

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Florida manatees are “talking” up a storm, and a team that has been recording those sounds for seven years is starting to understand the chatter.

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Does This Look like a Face to You? Mar 25, 2022

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Science—and experience—show that we most definitely see faces in inanimate objects. But new research finds that, more often than not, we perceive those illusory faces as male.

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Some Good News about Corals and Climate Change Mar 23, 2022

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A nearly two-year-long study of Hawaiian corals suggests some species may be better equipped to handle warmer, more acidic waters than previously believed.

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Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong and Ukraine's Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26 Mar 18, 2022

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Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? Mar 15, 2022

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New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.

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