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- How to keep quantum computers cool, whether prediction markets harm public health, and podcasting on podcastingFirst up on the podcast, quantum computers require extremely low temperatures—less than 1°C away from absolute zero. But getting down to those temperatures has usually required dilution fridges using the extremely rare and increasingly expensive isotope helium-3. Freelance science journalist Zack Savitsky joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss up-and-coming technologies that can drive down temperatures […]
- The Normals | Episode 2Last time on The Normals, we learned that in the 1950s, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wanted to recruit many healthy volunteers for basic research. Two peace churches, the Mennonites and the Church of the Brethren, had an excess of healthy human volunteers. The “Normals” recruited from these Anabaptist churches were surprisingly happy, even […]
- A chimpanzee ‘civil war,’ and NASA plans for nuclear propulsionFirst up on the podcast, freelance science journalist Hannah Richter joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss NASA’s plans to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in less than 3 years. Having not launched a fission reactor to space in more than 60 years, the organization faces many technical and bureaucratic hurdles to make that deadline. […]
Expert Insights
- Zambia Under Pressure to Clean Up Shuttered Lead Mine Poisoning TownThree decades after one of the largest lead mines in the world closed down, people in Kabwe, Zambia, are still dealing with the aftermath. Facing pervasive lead contamination that continues to endanger their children, families in Kabwe, with a coalition of human rights groups, are calling on the African Union to force Zambia to clean […]
- Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic WatersClimate change has thawed permafrost and increased rainfall in the Far North, producing sulfuric acid that is turning rivers and lakes yellow or rusty orange. Scientists are scrambling to parse the impacts on wildlife, fish, and the drinking water of Indigenous communities.Read more on E360 →
- Israeli Strikes Have Decimated Farmland in Southern LebanonIsraeli strikes in southern Lebanon have devastated orchards and fields. Lebanese officials say that one-fifth of the country's farmland has been damaged in the course of the war.Read more on E360 →
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