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Science Quickly

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🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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In this week's science roundup: drinking raw milk was always risky, but now there are added concerns over the spread of bird flu into dairy cows. An intense geomagnetic storm led to stunning auroras across the globe last week–and similar storms could mess with satellites and electricity infrastructure. Plus, hurricane forecasts are on the horizon. Email us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! And discover something new everyday by subscribing to Scientific American or signing up for our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Kelso Harper, Carin Leong, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Elah Feder, Alexa Lim, Madison Goldberg and Anaissa Ruiz Tejada, with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.0	Happy Monday listeners.
0:31.0	It's time to kick off the week by catching up on some science news that you may have missed
0:35.1	while you were doing whatever it is you do.
0:37.5	For science quickly, I'm Rachel Saltman.
0:40.4	Over the weekend, not this past weekend, but the weekend before that, folks all over the world
0:48.0	got to see rare aroral displays thanks to the most severe geomagnetic storm since 2003.
0:55.1	This amazing colorful phenomenon happens when a burst of magnetized plasma, which is called
1:00.1	a coronal mass ejection, or CME, spews out of the sun's corona and hits Earth's magnetic field.
1:07.1	That results in a bunch of extra energy in our upper atmosphere, which causes some chemical
1:11.7	elements to ionize.
1:13.0	Luckily for us, that ionization creates a kaleidoscopic glow.
1:17.5	Unfortunately, many of us, myself included, which I'm totally not upset about, missed out on this light show because of cloudy
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