What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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First up, host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Adrian Cho about new gravitational wave detections from the first half of 2019—including 37 new black hole mergers. With so many mergers now recorded, astrophysicists can do different kinds of research into things like how new pairs of black holes come to be and how often they merge. Sarah also talks with Sarah Davidson, data curator at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, about results from an Arctic animal tracking project that includes 3 decades of location information on many species, from soaring golden eagles to baby caribou taking their first steps. The early results from the Arctic Animal Movement Archive show that researchers can use the database as a baseline for future Arctic investigations and to examine the effects of climate on ecosystems in this key region. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, and A. Buonanno/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) Collaboration; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Adrian Cho Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.7	with usage and settings. Welcome to the science podcast for November 6, 2020. I'm Sarah Crespi. Each week we feature the most
1:19.0	interesting news and research published in science and the sister journals. First up, I talk with
1:24.0	staff writer Adrian Cho about the latest gravitational wave finds, including a
1:29.1	new neutron star merger and strange and unexpected black holes. I also talk with researcher Sarah
1:35.4	Davidson about an Arctic animal tracking project that captures the movement of many species
1:41.3	over decades in order to set a baseline for future Arctic investigations
1:46.1	and to look at the effects of climate on ecosystems in this region.
1:56.6	Now we have Adrian Cho, a staff writer here at Science.
2:00.2	He is the latest from gravitational wave
2:02.3	hunters. Hi, Adrian. Hi, sir. How are you? Okay. Gravitational waves were first detected in
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