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🗓️ 12 March 2017
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .jp.j. That's y-A-K-U-L-T.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:38.8 | The Earth is studded with telescopes, listening for electromagnetic radiation from the |
0:43.8 | great beyond. In a decade ago, astronomers stumbled upon a mysterious signal, a powerful pulse |
0:49.3 | of radio waves just a few thousandths of a second long. Mysterious because... |
0:54.1 | What is the nature of the sources? |
0:57.0 | Avi Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist at Harvard. |
1:00.0 | Whatever the sources are, he says. |
1:02.0 | They seem to be brighter by tens of billions of times more than the brightest radio sources we know about. |
1:11.3 | The radio pulses are known as fast radio bursts, |
1:14.4 | and Loeb says you'd need something tens of billions of times brighter than a pulsar to produce |
1:18.7 | them. |
1:19.4 | So he and his colleague, Monosvi-Lingham, investigated another possibility. |
1:23.4 | We know of one simple way to generate very powerful radio waves, and that's using radio antenna. |
1:29.3 | A radio antenna built and controlled by extraterrestrials, to be more precise. |
1:34.3 | Lobenlingham did the math on how big that stellar-powered radio antenna would have to be |
1:38.2 | to transmit signals like fast radio bursts, and whether it would even hold up from an engineering |
1:43.1 | standpoint, like would it melt |
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