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Science Magazine Podcast

Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Geoscientists are turning to fiber optic cables as a means of measuring seismic activity. But rather than connecting them to instruments, the cables are the instruments. Joel Goldberg talks with Staff Writer Paul Voosen about tapping fiber optic cables for science. Also this week, host Sarah Crespi talks with Sylvie Roke, a physicist and chemist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, and director of its Laboratory for fundamental BioPhotonics, about the place where oil meets water. Despite the importance of the interaction between the hydrophobic and the hydrophilic to biology, and to life, we don’t know much about what happens at the interface of these substances. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. [Image: Artography/Shutterstock; Music: Jeffrey Cook] [alt: oil droplets and water] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Paul Voosen; Joel Goldberg Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.acx9771 About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is a science podcast for December 10th, 2021.

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I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week, we share the most

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interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up this week,

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producer Joel Goldberg talks with staff writer Paul Vousen. They talk about scientists trying

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to use plain old optical fiber cables that are already laying around all over

1:45.2

the planet for sensing all kinds of seismic activity at glaciers, near volcanoes, even on the

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ocean floor.

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Next I talk with researcher Sylvie Roke about the place where oil meets water.

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