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SCI066: Consider the lowly ant. Caroline Knight tells Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle about the desert ant and how they use the Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. A recent study found their surprisingly adaptable brains changed due to altered magnetic fields. What does this mean for other animals?

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* Here’s how magnetic fields shape desert ants’ brains





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SCI065: Japan plans to launch a satellite to test space-based solar power in 2025. Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle discuss the technical aspects, scalability, and environmental concerns, balancing enthusiasm for its potential with realism about challenges and costs.

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* Japanese satellite will beam solar power to Earth in 2025 | Space





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SCI064: A coalition of countries are creating a standardized Lunar time zone, and Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle discuss why this is important to the future of space travel; how mass and gravity affect timekeeping; and the challenges to keeping time beyond Earth.

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* The Moon Will Get Its Own Time Zone Called Coordinated Lunar Time Under NASA’s Lead

* Celestial Time Standardization Policy





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SCI063: With a large part of the US getting a chance to see a total solar eclipse this week, Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant, and Lino Saubolle discuss eclipse science and viewing tips for those lucky enough to be in the path.

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* The Ambitious Plans to Study the Sun During April’s Solar Eclipse

* How to Make an Eclipse Viewer

* Solar Eclipse Mass Wedding Will See Hundreds of Couples Marry





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SCI062: Baboons in ancient Egypt held special significance, even providing the form of one of their gods. Caroline Knight, Lindsay Sant, and Lino Saubolle discuss how recent DNA finds trace their origins to the land of Punt and reveal insights into ancient trade routes and more.

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* Mummified baboons point to the direction of the fabled land of Punt

* Baboon mummy DNA from ancient Egypt reveals location of mysterious port city not on any maps

* Baboons in Ancient Egypt





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SCI061: The Moon is indeed shrinking. Caroline Knight explains to Lindsay Sant and Lino Saubolle how the Moon is contracting and cooling over time, causing moonquakes, shrinking about 150 feet every few hundred million years, and potentially affecting future Artemis lunar missions.

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* The Moon Is Shrinking, Causing Moonquakes at a Potential NASA Landing Site, Study Finds

* The Moon Is Slowly Shrinking, and That Could Be a Problem

* The Moon Is 40 Million Years Older Than Thought, Lunar Rock Samples Suggest





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