This week, we chat about the science behind breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing data in DNA strands, and a dinosaur’s zigzagging backbones with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. And Carolina Levis joins Alexa Billow to discuss evidence that humans have been domesticating the Amazon’s plants a lot longer than previously thought.

Read Carolina Levis’s research in Science.

Listen to previous podcasts.

[Image: Carolina Levis; Music: Jeffrey Cook]