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Podcast (audio): Mysterious fast radio bursts & long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments



On this week’s show: A new radio telescope promises to help sort out the more than 40 theories for the origins of fast radio bursts and researchers tackle the long-term health effects of pediatric cancer treatment

Host Sarah Crespi talks with Staff Writer Daniel Clery about the many, many theories surrounding fast radio bursts—extremely fast, intense radio signals from outside the galaxy—and a new telescope coming online that may help sort them out.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/homespun-canadian-telescope-could-explain-mysterious-radio-signals-distant-universe

Also this week, Sarah talks with Staff Writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel about her story on researchers’ attempts to tackle the long-term effects of pediatric cancer treatment. The survival rate for some pediatric cancers is as high as 90%, but many survivors have a host of health problems. Jennifer’s feature is part of a special section on pediatric cancer.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/treatments-childhood-cancer-can-devastate-lives-years-later-scientists-are-trying

Special section: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6432/1164

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