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Welcome to the science podcast for October 8, 2021. I'm Sarah Crespi.

Each week, we feature the most interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals.

First up this week is Contributing Correspondent Josh Sokol.

He discusses plans for launching tens of thousands of small satellites into low Earth orbit

and how these mega constellations have opened a new frontier

for environmental debate. After that, we have researcher Arthur Kochay. We talk about what can be

learned about the history of people by looking at the genetic history of the hepatitis B virus over 10,000

years.

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