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Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
Published 4 years, 10 months ago
Description
First up, science journalist Julia Rosen talks with host Sarah Crespi about a growing fleet of radar satellites that will soon be able to detect minute rises and drops of Earth’s surface—from a gently deflating volcano to a water-swollen field—on a daily basis.
Sarah also talks with Hui Cao, a professor of applied physics at Yale University, about a new way to generate enormous streams of random numbers faster than ever before, using a tiny laser that can fit on a computer chip.
This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.
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[Image: Kyungduk Kim/Yale; Music: Jeffrey Cook]
Authors: Sarah Crespi; Julia Rosen
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