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Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News Commentary, News, Science

4.2791 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Why don’t we know what is happening with hail? It’s extremely destructive and costs billions of dollars in property damage every year. We aren’t great at predicting hailstorms and don’t know much about how climate change will affect them, but scientists are working to change that. News Intern Hannah Richter joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss deploying new technologies in this long-neglected area of research. Next on the show, ultrasound—it’s not just for looking inside the body anymore. Meaghan O’Reilly is a senior scientist in physical sciences at the Sunnybrook Research Institute, an associate professor of medical biophysics at the University of Toronto, and is the Canada Research Chair in biomedical ultrasound. She talks about how researchers are using focused sound waves to disrupt tumors, change the permeability of the blood-brain barrier, stimulate the immune system, and more. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Authors: Sarah Crespi; Hannah Richter Episode page: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.zm3x6zq  About the Science Podcast: https://www.science.org/content/page/about-science-podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Morgan State University, a Baltimore, Maryland Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution,

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offers more than 100 academic programs and awards degrees at the Bacclureate, Masters, and Doctoral

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Levels, is furthering their mission of growing the future leading the world.

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Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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With a four-year quadrupling

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of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs, and eight new National Centers of Excellence,

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Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1 designation in the next five years. To learn more about

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Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu slash research.

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

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Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

0:55.9

It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding. Researchers at ICONMount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many

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fields vital to advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID,

1:08.7

cardiology, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence.

1:12.4

The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way.

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This is a science podcast for September 13th, 2024. I'm Sarah Crespi. First up this week, it's time to pay attention to hail.

1:32.0

Despite the billions and property damage that hailstorms cause every year, we aren't great at predicting

1:37.8

them, and we really don't know how climate change will affect them. Scientists think we can do better.

1:46.0

News intern Hannah Richter joins me to discuss deploying new technologies in this long neglected area of research. After

1:52.0

that, we have new uses for ultrasound. Ultrasound. It's not just for looking inside the body anymore.

1:58.0

Researcher Megan O'Reilly is here to talk about how scientists are using

2:02.3

focused sound waves to disrupt tumors, change the permeability of the blood brain barrier,

2:08.9

stimulate the immune system, and more.

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