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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast Science Talk posted on January 25th, 2012.

I'm Steve Murski. Last night, President Obama delivered the State of the Union address. Here's a little more than six minutes of it,

the sections dealing with research, technology, and energy. Anywhere I've made an edit in the audio,

you'll hear a musical interlude. And I've lowered the volume on some of the applause for the sake of all of our ears.

I think science-interested listeners across the political spectrum can find points of both

strong agreement and major disagreement in these few minutes of the talk.

Hundreds of thousands of talented, hardworking students in this country face another

challenge, the fact that they aren't yet American citizens. Many were brought here as small

children. Are American through and through. Yet they live every day with the threat of deportation. Others came more

recently to study business and science and engineering. But as soon as they get their degree,

we send them home to invent new products and create new jobs somewhere else. That doesn't make sense.

Let's at least agree to stop expelling responsible young people who want to staff our labs, start new businesses, defend this country.

Innovation also demands basic research.

Today, the discovery is taking place in our federally

financed labs and universities could lead to new treatments that kill cancer cells but leave

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