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Welcome to the science podcast for June 8, 2018. I'm Sarah Crespi.

This week, Science's books editor Valerie Thompson is here and she brings a summer reading list that will have you doing everything from catching stardust to swimming with the fishes.

Mira Moufarage discusses her research into a new type of blood test that can reveal the gestational age of a fetus and help predict preterm birth.

Now we have Valerie Thompson,

books editor here for science, and she's going to talk about our summer reading list. Hi, Valerie.

Hi, Sarah. These are recommendations, right? Yeah, that's kind of how I think of them when I put together the set. It's especially fun because I

work with early career researchers on these reviews. And so it's kind of fun to see their

enthusiasm for the books and for the topics. And I kind of try to choose books that have a little

bit of adventure to them. I feel like that's kind of a key component of summer reading.

Oh, for sure. And I will, I mean, there are recommendations, but these reviews, they're honest.

There's not all love in every single sentence.

That's true.

And I feel like you can't, in a review, like, that's what you want.

You don't want to mislead someone about a book.

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