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Coming up, using randomness to test the weird world of quantum physics.

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And a simple flickering light reduces toxic proteins in mice with Alzheimer's.

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This is the nature podcast for December 8th, 2016.

I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Kerry Smith.

So Adam here at the top of the show, I'm going to play you a video and I want you to describe for listeners what you can see.

There isn't any sound, but here we go.

Okay, so there is a mouse running around, but what's striking about this video is that there's a horrible flickering light, kind of governing everything on top of everything,

and then there's just a mouse running around in this weird disco.

Yeah, tiny little box, like disco box.

Yeah, it's a black and white disco for a mouse.

Great description.

Now, the thing that might not be so obvious from this video is that this mouse has a genetic

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