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With our biweekly Science News Roundup featuring the hosts of all things considered.

And today we have the West Coast host with

the most, Elsa Chang. West Coast is the best coast. Thank you so much, guys. So I hear we are going to be

talking about flies on oil rigs. So gross. Oh, they're cool. But also a surprising finding in the

Amazon forest.

And lastly, fish sounds in a coral reef.

Cool.

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