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Thank you. and quote, Science Podcast, to receive special offers. Welcome to the Science Podcast for June 19, 2015.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

In this week's show, Samuel Wasser talks about using genetics to locate elephant poachers.

David Grimm is here with some online news stories,

and Suzanne Bard has a story on the sound of the letter R

from the Acoustical Society meeting.

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Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about some recent online stories.

I'm Sarah Crespi.

First up, we have a story on what happens when the devil disappears.

Okay, we're talking about Tasmanian devils. This is still science. Tasmanian devils are in a huge

decline due to kind of a strange transmissible cancer. Now, Dave, there's obviously concern for the

loss of these animals, but there's also worries about the impact that

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