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Welcome to the Science Podcast for January 8, 2018.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, David Grimm talks about a few new underwater finds, seaweed-eating sharks, and tracking ancient whales via their barnacles.

And staff writer Adrian Cho talks with us about the future of quantum computing.

If these powerful machines are just around the corner, what will they do for science?

Now we have David Grimm, editor for our online daily news site.

He's here to talk about a pair of recent online stories.

Welcome, Dave.

Hey, Sarah. So this week we have two stories from Elizabeth Panisi on unexpected underwater finds.

One, a vegetarian or at least pescatarian shark, and another on using barnacles to trace whales.

Let's talk.

Let's talk. Let's talk.

Talk about the shark.

Let's talk salad sharks, which is what I called them in my mind, when I first read the story.

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