4.2 • 639 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. Yacold also |
0:11.5 | partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for |
0:16.6 | gut health, an investigator-led research program. To learn more about Yachtold, visit yawcult.co.j |
0:23.9 | That's Y-A-K-U-L-T dot CO.JP. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.7 | Happy September listeners. Let's lean into those new school year vibes by learning a little something. |
0:39.1 | For Scientific Americans Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. And this is your weekly science |
0:44.0 | news roundup. |
0:48.3 | First, some good news for anyone glued to their phone, which, I mean, if you're not, congratulations, I guess. |
0:54.8 | A new paper offers reassurance that cell phones don't give you brain cancer, which is great. |
1:00.3 | Phew. |
1:01.1 | So how did we get here? |
1:02.4 | Back in 2011, the World Health Organization's Cancer Research Agency classified mobile phone radiation as possibly carcinogenic. |
1:10.2 | That's a category that means there's limited |
1:12.4 | evidence that something could possibly raise cancer risk, but it's far from definitive. |
1:18.1 | You know what else falls into that category? So-called traditional Asian pickled vegetables. |
1:23.6 | And listen, if eating pickled dicon is how I go, so be it. The point is that a few studies suggesting |
1:30.0 | something might potentially be carcinogenic can get something put on this list, and it doesn't |
1:34.9 | mean it's time to throw the kimchi out with a bathwater. But unsurprisingly, the idea that cell phones |
1:40.0 | might cause cancer was scary enough and universally applicable enough, because again, |
1:44.8 | we're all glued to our phones, for advocacy groups, headlines, and even some regulators to |
1:49.4 | latch on to. In a new review led by the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Scientific American, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Scientific American and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.