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Hey, shortwaver is Regina Barbara here and Emily Kwong with our biweekly Science News Roundup featuring the hosts of all things considered.

And today, one of our favorites, Ari Shapiro.

One of your four favorites.

One of our four hosts.

I'm excited to hear about our new interstellar visitor.

I've been dreaming up names for him or her or them.

We also got news about a plastic eating worm that could revolutionize recycling.

And new research on how some animal's sense of smell varies by altitude.

Nothing to sniff at.

All that on this episode of Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.

As AI permeates every aspect of our lives, who are the people behind this huge inflection point?

What keeps them up at night?

I fear that what it means to be human may suddenly not be our own.

We've got a special series from NPR's TED Radio Hour.

It's called The Profits of Technology.

What they got right, wrong, and where these pioneers think we're headed next.

Listen to the TED Radio Hour, wherever you get your podcasts.

At Planet Money, we know that economic jargon can sometimes feel like speaking another language.

Yeah, like arbitrage, alpha, autarchy.

That's just what's in the news these days.

There's also absolute advantage, aggregate demand. Agg supply. And this is just the A's.

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