This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.

Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields

vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology,

neuroscience, and artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai,

we find a way. Being a marketer is no sweat. You just have to manage

dozens of channels, launch hundreds of campaigns, score thousands of leads and, okay, fine,

it's a lot of sweat. Unless you have HubSpot's AI-powered marketing tools to help you do all that

and more. Get started at HubSpot.com slash marketers.

Welcome to the science podcast for February 26, 2021.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.

First up, freelance science writer Julia Rosen talks about a

growing fleet of radar satellites that will soon be able to detect centimeter size changes

anywhere on Earth's surface daily. Then I talk with researcher Huay Tsau about a new way to generate

enormous streams of random numbers faster than ever using a tiny laser

that can fit on a computer chip.

Now we have science writer Julia Rosen.

We're going to talk about a growing fleet of radar satellites that can image

tiny shifts in the Earth's surface. Hi, Julia. Hi. The technology behind these satellites,

the way these observations are being made, is with something called synthetic aperture radar.

...