First up this week, freelance science journalist Sofia Moutinho joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss making open-access journals from South and Latin America visible to the rest of the world by creating platforms that help with the publishing process and discovery of journal articles. This story is part of a News series about global equity in science.

Next on the show, departing Physical Sciences Editor Brent Grocholski discusses highlights from his career at Science, particularly his work on cooling technologies. Related papers:

●     A self-regenerative heat pump based on a dual-functional relaxor ferroelectric polymer

●     High cooling performance in a double-loop electrocaloric heat pump

●     High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system

●     Colossal electrocaloric effect in an interface-augmented ferroelectric polymer

●     Sizing up caloric devices

This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.

About the Science Podcast

Authors: Sarah Crespi; Brent Grocholski; Sofia Moutinho

About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast

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