Science, Spoken

By WIREDScience

Science, Spoken episodes

February 06, 2024 I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
WIRED experimented with a new form of voice assistant that can browse the web and perform tasks online. Siri, Alexa, and other virtual helpers could soon be much more powerful.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
9 min
February 05, 2024 A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin
Houston-based rBIO has invented a new process to churn out insulin at higher yields using custom-made bacteria.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
10 min
February 02, 2024 Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren
Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change kids’ perceptions of the industry.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11 min
February 01, 2024 Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains
“Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety?
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
9 min
January 31, 2024 Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant
Details are scarce, but Elon Musk says initial results are “promising.”
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
7 min
January 30, 2024 Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space Right Now
Welcome to the world’s foremost training ground for saving space from disasters, disputes, and—perhaps one day—colonizers named Musk.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12 min
January 29, 2024 6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
Several gene therapies aim to restore a protein necessary for transmitting sound signals from the ear to the brain.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11 min
January 26, 2024 The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction
The winter sport is becoming more treacherous as the world warms and icefalls become less and less stable.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
12 min
January 25, 2024 The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
New research finds that the groundwater systems that hydrate your life are in rapid, sometimes accelerating decline around the globe. Here’s how to stop the retreat.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11 min
January 24, 2024 The World's First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
On Monday, Cameroon became the first nation to establish routine childhood malaria immunizations. The race is on to give protection to as many people as possible.
Read this story here.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
11 min

About Science, Spoken

From the publisher's feed

Get in-depth coverage of current and future trends in technology, and how they are shaping business, entertainment, communications, science, politics, and society.