{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/0185cea5-9e3b-4b82-a887-26f91f92765f/1db5b64d-921b-413b-8453-238ca2053f69?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"13 June 2019: Mighty magnets, and aerosols in the atmosphere","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61b9f3b71a8cbe675f3cedcb/61b9f40a7701000015818219.jpg?height=200","description":"<p><strong>This week, a record-breaking magnetic field, and aerosols’ potential effects on the atmosphere.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>00:45 Making massive magnets</strong></p><p>Researchers have created the world’s strongest direct current magnetic field.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Research article:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1293-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>S. Hahn et al.</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>08:38 Research Highlights</strong></p><p>Macaques’ musicality and human consumption of microplastics.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Research Article:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0410-7\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Divergence in the functional organization of human and macaque auditory cortex revealed by fMRI responses to harmonic tones</em></a>;&nbsp;</p><p><em>Research Highlight:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01828-w\" target=\"_blank\"><em>What a bottled-water habit means for intake of ‘microplastics’</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>10:55 Aerosols’ impacts on the climate</strong></p><p>There’s a still a lot to learn about how aerosols affect the climate.&nbsp;</p><p><em>Comment:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01791-6\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Soot, sulfate, dust and the climate — three ways through the fog</em></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>17:03 News Chat</strong></p><p>The launch of an X-ray space telescope, and a Russian researcher’s plans to CRISPR-edit human embryos.&nbsp;<em>News:</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01831-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Space telescope to chart first map of the Universe in high-energy X-rays</em></a>;&nbsp;<em>News:&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01770-x\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Russian biologist plans more CRISPR-edited babies</em></a></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Springer Nature Limited"}