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Making drugs in space, the man who fed India, and what narwhals can teach us about changing seas
Published Aug 27, 2026 · 47m
This episode examines whether manufacturing pharmaceuticals and biomedical materials in microgravity can become practical, with Julia Vaz and Michael Greshko. Kevin McLean speaks with Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen about narwhals collecting oceanographic measurements that reveal Atlantic warming in East Greenland fjords. In the book segment, Angela Saini interviews Priyambada Jayakumar about her biography of agricultural scientist M. S. Swaminathan. The publisher provides a full transcript and external audio.
Hosted by Sarah Crespi, Angela Saini
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Science / AAAS
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