How whales got so big, sperm in space, and a first look at Jupiter’s poles

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not-so-distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record tells us about how baleen whales got so ginormous with Online News Editor David Grimm. Julia Rosen talks to Scott Bolton about surprises in the first data from the Juno mission, including what Jupiter’s poles look like and a peak under its outer cloud layers. Listen to previous podcasts. [Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,
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0:42.6	Welcome to the Science Podcast for May 26, 2017.
0:44.2	I'm Sarah Crespi.
0:51.1	In this week's show, Scott Bolton joins Julia Rosen to talk about a first look at Jupiter's polls and what we're learning from the Juno Mission.
0:54.8	And David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories from the Daily News site.
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