Science, Spoken

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats these crinkles as elegant solutions to geometric problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Keeping rodents off Santa Cruz Island is an exhausting task. But now, conservationists are getting an assist from an AI-powered surveillance system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In the future, remote-controlled quadcopters might mean that researchers won’t have to crawl inside volcanoes to collect carbon dioxide anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The bacteria, which contaminate poultry meat, sicken 1.35 million Americans every year. But there’s very little the federal government can do to stop it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

East European governments are starting to distribute the tablets as a precaution, but there are limits to the protection they offer, and who might need them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new study finds no correlation between research and development spending and outlandish drug prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scientists integrated tiny cell clusters called organoids with the animals’ own tissue, a step toward developing sophisticated mini-models of the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scientists are investigating why large animals like the mule deer of Wyoming go where they go—and how humans can get out of their way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sure, my telepresence robot had some issues—but for students like me who can’t make it to campus because of disability or illness, these tools open new doors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

These pollinators can help urban gardens grow. That will be critical for cooling cities as the planet warms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pathogens in soil are a danger to firefighters, but smoke may transport spores that cause valley fever and other infections into cities too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new study shows that cancer patients in precarious living situations are twice as likely to die from their illness, underscoring the harms of unstable housing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new and contentious five-year limit for getting rid of dead satellites could slow the growing orbital litter problem—if people actually abide by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Allen Institute’s release includes recordings from a whopping 300,000 mouse neurons. Now the challenge is figuring out what to do with all that data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With human therapists in short supply, AI chatbots are trying to plug the gap—but it’s not clear how well they work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Illumina just announced a machine that can crack genomes twice as fast as its current version—and drive the cost down to $200 a pop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Desertification can wear down ancient ruins or hide them under dunes—leaving researchers scrambling to keep track of where they’re buried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Worries about polio, monkeypox, and Covid-19 are rising. Here’s how to gather your health information, even if you’ve lost the paper records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meticulous turf is environmentally terrible. Yet grass does have one charm: It “sweats,” helping cool the local area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A global fungal pandemic wiped out amphibians, destroyed biodiversity, and ultimately increased human illness. Now a second similar pathogen is on the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices