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An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
On this week’s show: Detecting childhood eye disease in old photos, and inserting memories into zebra finches
Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts
On this week’s show: Social scientists are waiting impatiently for a trove of Facebook data held up by privacy concerns, and fertility researchers examine why so many human eggs have the wrong number of chromosomes
Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds
On this week’s show: How dust from an asteroid breakup might have triggered an ice age, and billions of North American birds have vanished
Studying human health at 5100 meters, and playing hide and seek with rats
On this week’s show: We hear about a gold mining town more than 5 kilometers above sea level, and learn why studying play behavior is important
Searching for a lost Maya city, and measuring the information density of language
On this week’s show: Archaeologists search for a mysterious city that evaded Spanish conquistadors for a century, and linguists find that—no matter how complex their structure—many languages convey information at the same rate
Where our microbiome came from, and how our farming and hunting ancestors transformed the world
On this week’s show: A survey of microbes in Hawaii reveals how plants and animals get their microbiomes, and a crowdsourced map of how our early ancestors altered the world
Promising approaches in suicide prevention, and how to retreat from climate change
On this week’s show: Three promising prevention strategies to save lives, and how one researcher recommends integrating relocation into our long-term climate change goals
One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
On this week’s show: Researchers bring in MRI, AI, and CRISPR to figure out the sex of unhatched chickens, and microplastic finds a route to the far north
Next-generation cellphone signals could interfere with weather forecasts, and monitoring smoke from wildfires to model nuclear winter
Weather forecasters express concerns about new cellphone technology, and what smoke plumes can reveal about the aftermath of nuclear bombs
Earthquakes caused by too much water extraction, and a dog cancer that has lived for millennia
On this week’s show: Researchers suspect pulling water out of the ground may cause earthquakes, and what we can learn about human cancer from a dog cancer that has been around for about 8000 years
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