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Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R-1 designation in the next five years.

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Welcome to the science podcast for August 24, 2018. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show, Deputy News Editor Eric Hayond talks about the possibility

of sending CubeSats. These are briefcase-sized satellites on interplanetary missions, and the

technology needed to make that happen. And also this week, our new producer, Megan Cantwell,

makes her debut on the podcast. She talks with Brad Eudal and Quentin Grafton about the irrigation efficiency paradox.

This is this inescapable fact that when farms increase their irrigation efficiency,

they still seem to use the same amount of water.

What is causing this and what can be done to better conserve water in a warming world?

Now we have Eric Han, Deputy News Editor for Science.

He's here with a story on CubeSats, these very small satellites that have been used mostly

to look back at the Earth once they're launched into space, but now they're going to go

where no CubeSat has gone

before. Hi, Eric. Hi, Sarah. So let's start with what a CubeSat is. CubSat is just a term for a small

satellite. It's a class of small satellites made from little cubes, 10 centimeters on a side. They've been standardized. You can buy all

sorts of important satellite parts that fit into these cubes. And so it's almost modular.

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