Science, Spoken

Researchers recently tested whether a balloon-borne sensor could listen for venusquakes to learn about the planet's makeup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new model explains the forces and body design features that limit maximum sprinting speed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pinning down the number of “long-haulers” suffering from the mysterious condition is an important task. It’s also proving impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sea level rise will soon combine with a host of other environmental factors to produce dozens of floods each fall in US coastal cities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nauka’s errant firings were likely the result of human error—and they raise concerns about the future of the country’s space program and its partnership with NASA. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With a new train line threatening its habitat, the big cat may be the key to protecting this Mexican reserve—and everything else in it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hopes for a “normal” fall have been dashed by variants and low vaccine uptake. Businesses and the White House think requiring shots can turn things around. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wolf puppies can’t understand human gestures as well as their dog cousins. The difference could help explain what makes dogs so special. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new formula measures the “mortality cost of carbon,” and how much would have to be removed from the atmosphere to save a single life. Â Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Huge pyrocumulonimbus clouds just formed over fires in the West. Here’s why they could become more common on a warmer planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dozens of viruses don't use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this is possible—and perhaps more common than we think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The birds aren’t producing sounds at random. Some of their strategies are surprisingly similar to ones used by humans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

These high-energy explosions, brighter than billions and billions of suns, have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When the invasive swine root through soils around the world, they release as much carbon dioxide as a million cars. Good luck getting rid of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This robot can help a human assemble a bookcase by predicting what part they’ll want next and handing it over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The latest in “electronic medicine” offers an alternative to temporary pacemakers and could help reduce tissue scarring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Walls are meant to keep out rising seas—but that water still has to go somewhere. New modeling shows it could well end up flooding your neighbors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new report details global warming’s effect on the national park and its surroundings, including everything from its forests to the Old Faithful geyser. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If habitable worlds exist around certain stars, they’d have just the right vantage point to spy on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Using a novel device made from carbon atoms and a laser, researchers captured real-time electrical signals from muscle tissue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The ability to spot Jesus’ mug in a piece of burnt toast might be a product of evolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The historic flight is only the second time that the rocket plane has carried people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The technique can be used to track how water flows through plants—which could be key to breeding more resilient crops in an increasingly hot, dry climate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The discovery could have a profound effect on cell research for many species of plants and animals, as well as the future of crops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The instrument reads sunlight intensity to determine carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Its findings could help reduce our carbon footprint. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices