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🗓️ 21 December 2022
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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. |
0:11.0 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:20.1 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co. |
0:22.7 | .jp.j. That's Y-A-K-U-Lt.C-O.jp. When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:31.0 | Hello, 60 Second Science fans. This is Jeff Delvisio. I'm the executive producer of the podcast. |
0:40.8 | First, I really just want to thank you for all being loyal listeners for however long you've been listening. |
0:46.1 | And just in case that's from the very start, you've been with us now for 16 years, three months, and seven days, counting today. |
0:53.8 | That's near prehistoric in podcast years. |
0:57.1 | In that time, we've published well over 3,000 episodes on every imaginable science and health |
1:01.9 | topic. But on September 5th, 2006, we started it all off with Beatles. Karen Hopkins, |
1:07.9 | who's been with us the whole way, honestly, she really has. She just did a segment last week on how your female pooch is definitely judging you. |
1:14.2 | Described how MIT researchers were making water-saving materials based off the nature tech built into the Namib Desert Beetle. |
1:21.3 | Here, for nostalgia's sake, is that segment in full. |
1:28.2 | This is Scientific Americans' 60 Second Science. |
1:31.2 | I'm Karen Hopkins. This will just take a minute. |
1:34.1 | Biologist JBS Haldane once said that the creator, if he exists, has an inordinate |
1:38.5 | fondness of beetles. Well, so do researchers at MIT. |
1:42.2 | Inspired by the Namib Desert Beetle, MIT engineers Robert Cohn and Michael Rubner have produced |
1:47.3 | a new material that can trap and control tiny volumes of water. |
1:51.4 | The Namib Desert in southern Africa is one of the driest spots on Earth. |
1:55.2 | Its inhabitants survive by extracting precious moisture from the light morning fog that periodically |
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