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This is the science podcast for September 16th, 2020.

I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we talk about the

most interesting news and research from science and the sister journals. First up this week,

we have news intern Zach Savitsky. He joins me to talk about an upcoming NASA mission that's

scheduled to ram a little spacecraft into an asteroid at the end of this month

to test out some ideas about how we might defend our planet one day from an incoming asteroid.

Also this week, researcher Mohamed Samshudaha joins me to talk about the Bengal water machine in Bangladesh.

This is how millions of individual farmers are creating a giant

underground sponge that soaks up fresh water during monsoon season.

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