Podcast: Killing off stowaways to Mars, chasing synthetic opiates, and how soil contributes to global carbon calculations

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News, News Commentary, Science

4.3 • 842 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This week, how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells into biocomputers, and a look at how underground labs in China are creating synthetic opioids for street sales in the United States with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Caitlin Hicks Pries joins Julia Rosen to discuss her study of the response of soil carbon to a warming world. And for this month’s book segment, Jen Golbeck talks to Rob Dunn about his book Never Out of Season: How Having the Food We Want When We Want It Threatens Our Food Supply and Our Future. Listen to previous podcasts. Download the show transcript. Transcripts courtesy of Scribie.com. [Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.2	Welcome to the science podcast for March 31st, 2017. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show,
1:30.7	Caitlin Hicks-Preeze joins Julia Rosen to talk about the response of carbon trapped in soils to a warming world.
1:33.7	Our book segment is back with Jen Goldbeck.
1:43.1	She talks with Rob Dunn, author of the book Never Out of Season, how having the food we want when we want it threatens our food supply and our future.
1:48.5	And finally, Catherine Mattisick is here with a roundup of stories from our daily news site.
1:54.0	Now we have Catherine Mattisick, an editor for our daily news site, and she's here to tell us
1:59.0	about some recent online stories.
2:01.4	First up,
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