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Welcome to the science podcast for July 6, 2018. I'm Sarah Crespi. This week, Deputy News Editor Leslie Roberts has a story on vaccine-derived polio

and an outbreak that threatens big plans to eradicate the virus from the planet.

An online news editor, David Grimm, introduces us to America's first dogs.

According to new evidence, they came over from Siberia, just like America's first people.

And then the dogs disappeared entirely, thousands of years later.

First up, we have Leslie Roberts, Deputy News Editor for Science.

She's here with a story on a polio outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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