Podcast: Human pheromones lightly debunked, ignoring cyberattacks, and designer chromosomes

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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This week, how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a good idea to ignore some cyberattacks, and new questions about the existence of human pheromones with Online News Editor David Grimm. And Sarah Richardson joins Alexa Billow to discuss a global project to build a set of working yeast chromosomes from the ground up. Read Sarah Richardson’s research in Science. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: Drew Gurian; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.2	Welcome to the science podcast for March 10th, 2017.
1:41.1	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:42.6	In this week's show, Sarah Richardson joins Alexa Billo to talk about a global
1:47.4	project to build yeast chromosomes from scratch. And David Grimm is here with a roundup of stories
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