Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit

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News, News Commentary, Science

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🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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On this week’s show: Saving birds from city lights, and helping astronauts inhabit robots First up, Science Contributing Correspondent Josh Sokol talks with host Sarah Crespi about the millions of migrating birds killed every year when they slam into buildings—attracted by brightly lit windows. New efforts are underway to predict bird migrations and dim lights along their path, using a bird-forecasting system called . Next, we hear from Aaron Pereira, a researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and a guest researcher at the human robot interaction lab at the European Space Agency. He chats with Sarah about his Science Robotics paper on controlling a robot on Earth from the International Space Station and the best way for an astronaut to “immerse” themselves in a rover or make themselves feel like it is an extension of their body. In a sponsored segment from Science and the AAAS Custom Publishing Office, Sean Sanders, director and senior editor for custom publishing, interviews Alberto Pugliese, professor of medicine, microbiology, and immunology at the University of Miami, about a program he leads to advance research into type 1 diabetes. This segment is sponsored by the Helmsley Charitable Trust and nPod (the Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors with Diabetes). This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: M. Panzirsch et al., Science Robotics (2022); Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: remote-controlled rover with podcast symbol overlay] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Josh Sokol Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq5907 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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1:22.6	This is the science podcast for November 22nd, 2022. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we talk about some of the
1:30.1	most interesting news and research from science and the sister journals. First up, news contributing
1:36.3	correspondent Josh Sokol. We talk about the millions of migrating birds killed every year when they
1:42.8	slam into brightly lit buildings at night, and recent
1:46.6	efforts to prevent these deaths using bird migration forecasts. After that, we hear from researcher
1:52.7	Aaron Pereira about controlling a robot from orbit. In this case, the robot is on Earth, and the
1:58.6	controller was on the ISS. Finally, in a sponsored segment from our
2:02.9	Custom Publishing Office, Director of Custom Publishing, Sean Sanders, talks with Professor Alberto
2:08.1	Pliasi about the N-Pod program to advance type 1 diabetes research. No one knows why birds are attracted to bright lights at night, just like we don't know why moths love a flame.
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