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🗓️ 13 December 2017
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
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0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, yacult.co.co.j. |
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0:27.6 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:31.6 | This is Scientific American's 60 Second Science. |
0:36.6 | I'm Christopher in Taliatta. |
0:39.1 | Light doesn't travel well underwater, so dolphins and other toothed whales navigate like bats |
0:44.8 | using echolocating clicks. They're like lasers of sound that they produce out of their |
0:52.2 | forehead and they bounce them off of things the same way bats do |
0:55.5 | to interpret their environment. Kate Fraser is an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, |
1:01.1 | and her studies of underwater clicks include tossing computers, worth about $100,000 each, |
1:06.8 | over the side of a ship into the Gulf of Mexico. It just feels so wrong, and then, you know, a year later, you go back, you send out this little ping signal and goes |
1:15.0 | and do, do, do, do, do, do. |
1:16.5 | And that goes out to the instrument and it drops its weights and just floats to the surface. |
1:22.0 | And it's like this magical moment, you know. |
1:24.9 | Oh, my gosh, I never thought we'd get that back. |
1:29.4 | The waterproof computers have underwater microphones attached. So when they float back up, they're loaded with a symphony of |
1:34.4 | underwater sounds, including more than 50 million clicks. And by the way, that sample was |
1:43.2 | slowed down by half and lowered an octave. |
1:46.5 | Fraser used to comb through that audio herself, staring at the signals and trying to differentiate |
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