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Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew

Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew

FromScience Magazine Podcast


Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew

FromScience Magazine Podcast

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Oct 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around, approximately 400-million-year-old trees that grew by splitting their guts, and why fighting poverty might also mean worsening climate change with Online News Editor David Grimm.

Sarah Crespi talks with cognitive neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene of the Collège de France in Paris about consciousness—what is it and can machines have it?

For our monthly books segment, Jen Golbeck reviews astronaut Scott Kelly’s book Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery.

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[Image: NASA/Goddard; Music: Jeffrey Cook]​
Released:
Oct 26, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

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Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.