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Podcast: The World, the Universe and Us
Episode: Weekly: Trump’s war on science; How whale song resembles human language; How to boil the perfect egg with science
Description: Episode 288President Trump has launched what’s being described as an all-out assault on science and medicine. Given America’s impact on global science, this affects the entire world. Web pages referencing climate change and global warming are being deleted, words like “transgender” are being banned from medical publications and USAID has been labelled evil. As access to fundamental scientific information is put at risk, we find out how anxiety is rising among US scientists - and what it means for the rest of us.Two studies of whale songs have uncovered striking similarities to the patt...