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Welcome to the science podcast for August 9th, 2019. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,

we start with science writer Gabriel Popkin. He's going to talk

with me about a battle over bandwidth. This is between 5G, the new generation of cell phone technology

and weather forecasters that are concerned that this signal might interfere with our ability to

predict the weather. And I talk with Ponfeu about what an immense smoke bloom from 2017 wildfires

in Western Canada can tell us about the aftermath of a nuclear bomb.

Now we have Gabriel Popkin. He's a freelance science writer based here in Maryland. This week, he wrote about a battle over bandwidth between telecommunication and weather forecasting agencies. Hi, Gabe.

Hi.

The area of the spectrum at issue here is what the telecoms call 5G. Is accessing this new ban about making faster phones? Well, that's one of the potential

applications. And I should clarify, 5G actually already exists. Yeah. The major telecom companies

are starting to roll it out. There are a bunch of different frequencies that they're using and other

frequencies that they want to use

in the future. And this battle is over this one little piece of the frequency spectrum that

happens to be near a frequency that's very important for weather forecasters.

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