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**Science, Spoken**

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.

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8/5 midnight - Don't Ask How to Pay for Climate Change. Ask Who Aug 05, 2019

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8/2 noon - The Notre Dame Fire Spread Toxic Lead Dust Over Paris Aug 02, 2019

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The World Health Organization Says No More Gene-Edited Babies Aug 01, 2019

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7/31 AM The Bizarre, Peaty Science of Arctic Wildfires Jul 31, 2019

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7/30 AM Physicists Made a Blazing Hot Plasma Doughnut to Study Solar Wind Jul 30, 2019

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7/30 PM SpaceX Just Unleashed Its Starship Rocket for the First Time Jul 29, 2019

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7/30 AM Why Big Banks Could Soon Jump on the Quantum Bandwagon Jul 29, 2019

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7/26 PM Here’s How Elon Musk Plans to Stitch a Computer into Your Brain Jul 26, 2019

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Elon Musk doesn’t think his newest endeavor, revealed Tuesday night after two years of relative secrecy, will end all human suffering. Just a lot of it. Eventually. At a presentation at the California Academy of Sciences, hastily announced via Twitter and beginning a half hour late, Musk presented the first product from his company Neuralink. It’s a tiny computer chip attached to ultrafine, electrode-studded wires, stitched into living brains by a clever robot.

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An Alien-Hunting Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery Jul 24, 2019

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In spring 2007, David Narkevic, a physics student at West Virginia University, was sifting through reams of data churned out by the Parkes telescope—a dish in Australia that had been tracking pulsars, the collapsed, rapidly spinning cores of once massive stars. His professor, astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer, had asked him to search for a recently discovered type of ultra-rapid pulsar dubbed RRAT.

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The Sea Is Consuming Jakarta, and Its People Aren't Insured Jul 24, 2019

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Jakarta is sinking at the worst possible time. As sea levels creep higher, the coastal megalopolis continues to pump too much water from its underlying aquifers, and consequently the land is collapsing by almost a foot a year in some places. A modern city, home to 10 million people, is in danger of disappearing: According to one researcher’s models, 95 percent of north Jakarta could be submerged by 2050.

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