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Meet the million-year-old microbes living deep underground

July 18, 2024 Science and Technology, Think

Ferris Jabr is the author of “Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life.” He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the amazing microbes embedded deep within the Earth’s mantle that might be keys to understanding life as we know it on this planet — as well as many others.

Hey, Siri, what happens when AI talks like humans?

May 16, 2022 Science and Technology

Steven Johnson from New York Times Magazine talks about how computers are learning languages so accurately that it’s hard to know you aren’t talking to a human.

In The Age Of Hurricanes And Wild Fires, Americans Will Have To Move

September 22, 2020 Current Events, Environment, Global Issues

Abrahm Lustgarten, senior environmental reporter with ProPublica, joins us to talk about projections of global migration patterns modeled just 50 years from now and how they will upend our planet.