Sounds of recovery: AI helps monitor wildlife during forest restoration
In this episode:00:47 An automated way to monitor wildlife recoveryTo prevent the loss of wildlife, forest restoration is key, but monitoring how well biodiversity actually recovers is incredibly difficult. Now though, a team have collected recordings of animal sounds to determine the extent of the recovery. However, while using these sounds to identify species is an effective way to monitor, it’s also labour intensive. To overcome this, they trained an AI to listen to the sounds, and found that although it was less able to identify species, its findings still correlated well with wildlife recovery, suggesting that it co...
Source: Nature Podcast - October 25, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Springer Nature Limited Source Type: podcasts
Is it time for the Beano to drop the junk food brands?
Claire Mulrenan, specialist registrar in public health, and Mark Petticrew, professor of public health evaluation, both working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine were surprised to see high-fat, high-salt fast food brands being featured heavily on the website of one of the UK's most beloved children's comics.
In this podcast, they describe why they think that is harmful, and why the Beano should think again about its editorial policies, to protect children's health.To read the full investigation:
www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p197 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Is it time for the Beano to drop the junk food brands?
Claire Mulrenan, specialist registrar in public health, and Mark Petticrew, professor of public health evaluation, both working at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine were surprised to see high-fat, high-salt fast food brands being featured heavily on the website of one of the UK's most beloved children's comics.
In this podcast, they describe why they think that is harmful, and why the Beano should think again about its editorial policies, to protect children's health.
To read the full investigation:
www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p197 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - February 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies how ocean waves disperse virus-laden aerosols, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how she became an outspoken advocate for using masks to prevent coronavirus transmission. A related insight she wrote for Science has been downloaded more than 1 million times. Read Science ’s coronavirus coverage. Mikkel Sinding, a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, talks sled dog genes with Sarah. After comparing the genomes of modern dogs, Greenland sled dogs, and an ancient dog jaw bone found on a remote Siberian island where ...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 25, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies how ocean waves disperse virus-laden aerosols, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how she became an outspoken advocate for using masks to prevent coronavirus transmission. A related insight she wrote for Science has been downloaded more than 1 million times.
Read Science’s coronavirus coverage.
Mikkel Sinding, a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, talks sled dog genes with Sarah. After comparing the genomes of modern dogs, Greenland sled dogs, and an ancient dog jaw bone found on a remote Siberian island w...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 25, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies how ocean waves disperse virus-laden aerosols, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how she became an outspoken advocate for using masks to prevent coronavirus transmission. A related insight she wrote for Science has been downloaded more than 1 million times.
Read Science’s coronavirus coverage.
Mikkel Sinding, a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, talks sled dog genes with Sarah. After comparing the genomes of modern dogs, Greenland sled dogs, and an ancient dog jaw bone found on a remote Siberian island where...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 25, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the University of California, San Diego, who studies how ocean waves disperse virus-laden aerosols, joins host Sarah Crespi to talk about how she became an outspoken advocate for using masks to prevent coronavirus transmission. A related insight she wrote for Science has been downloaded more than 1 million times.
Read Science’s coronavirus coverage.
Mikkel Sinding, a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, talks sled dog genes with Sarah. After comparing the genomes of modern dogs, Greenland sled dogs, and an ancient dog jaw bone found on a remote Siberian island wher...
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - June 23, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
"Gut Reaction" -- The Discovery Files
A study at Oregon State University indicates that both a high-fat and a high-sugar diet, compared to a normal diet, cause changes in gut bacteria that appear related to a significant loss of "cognitive flexibility," or the power to adapt and adjust to changing situations. This effect was most serious on the high-sugar diet, which also showed an impairment of early learning for both long-term and short-term memory. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - August 19, 2015 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
" Fat Chance " -- The Discovery Files
Maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may prime offspring for weight gain and obesity later in life, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, who looked at rats whose mothers consumed a high-fat diet and found that the offspring's feeding controls and feelings of fullness did not function normally. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - May 13, 2015 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts
