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Babbage: Put to the test

Babbage from The Economist
Babbage from The Economist
Episode • Aug 5, 2020 • 25m

A shortage of covid-19 tests around the world has hampered efforts to contain it. Could "pool sampling" be a solution? Also, the promise of million-mile electric car batteries? And, Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz, a developmental biologist at the University of Cambridge and Caltech, on the mysteries of life after conception. Kenneth Cukier hosts 

 

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