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Welcome to the science podcast for February 14, 2014.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, we learn why termite-inspired robots are better off without centralized control,

and Science's managing news editor is here to talk about why some cells are better off with many, many copies of their genomes. David Grimm is out this week, but will return next week

after the AAAS annual meeting.

Support for the science podcast is provided by AAAAS, the American Association for the

Advancement of Science.

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