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Scott Detrow talks to Lulu Miller, the host of Radiolab's Terrestrials podcast, about her conversation with the scientist Wanda Diaz-Merced, who studies gravitational waves that ripple through ...

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Did you know UC San Diego ocean science made D-Day a success? In the final hours before the invasion of Normandy, Scripps Institution of Oceanography oceanographers and meteorologists advised Allied ...