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One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Aug 15, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Researchers, regulators, and the chicken industry are all united in their search for a way to make eggs more ethical by stopping culling—the killing of male chicks born to laying hens. Contributing Correspondent Gretchen Vogel talks with host Sarah Crespi about the many approaches being tried to determine the sex of chicken embryos before they hatch, from robots with lasers, to MRIs, to artificial intelligence, to gene editing with CRISPR.
Also this week, Sarah talks with Melanie Bergmann, a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, about finding microplastic particles in snow all the way up at the Fram Strait, between Greenland and the Svalbarg archipelago in Norway.
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.
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Also this week, Sarah talks with Melanie Bergmann, a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, about finding microplastic particles in snow all the way up at the Fram Strait, between Greenland and the Svalbarg archipelago in Norway.
This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.
Download a transcript (PDF)
Ads on this week’s show: Science Sessions podcast; National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Listen to previous podcasts.
About the Science Podcast
[Image: fruchtzwerg’s world/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Released:
Aug 15, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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