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Science Magazine Podcast

Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Data on hazes and clouds may be key to understanding exoplanets, and NextGen letter writers share the upside of failure Hazes and clouds could keep exoplanets’ secrets hidden, unless researchers can re-create them here on Earth. After celebrating JWST and its ability to look far back in time and help us look for habitable exoplanets as the 2022 Science Breakthrough of the Year, News Intern Zack Savitsky talks with host Sarah Crespi about an overlooked problem with using telescopes to examine exoplanets’ atmospheres.  What was your greatest mistake? In a chat with producer Kevin McLean, Letters Editor Jennifer Sills shares stories from NextGen Voices about failures that led them in unexpected directions in their science careers. Take the podcast audience survey at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TLKCHC8 This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: exoplanet with cloudy and hazy atmosphere with podcast symbol overlay] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Kevin McLean; Jennifer Sills; Zack Savitsky  Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg6078 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

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offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Baccliorate, Masters, and Doctoral Levels,

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is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

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Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

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and eight new National Centers of Excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years.

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To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

0:40.5

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

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

0:55.7

It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in

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

1:08.8

cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

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The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.

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This is a science podcast for January 13th, 2023. I'm Sarah Crespi. Please take a moment to fill in our podcast

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survey. You'll see it as a pop-up at science.org slash podcast, or you can find it on the show notes for the

1:36.0

episode. First up this week, clouds and hazes are blocking our view of exoplanets. In turn,

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Zach Savitsky joins me to talk about what scientists are doing

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to take these obstructing substances into account and improve our view of far-off worlds.

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After that, we have The Voices of the Next Generation with producer Kevin McLean and

1:57.5

Letters editor Jennifer Sills. Four times a year, science invites young scientists from all over the world to weigh in on a

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question.

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This time, you'll hear answers to one about fruitful failures.

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