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Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Tropical birds’ ‘silent spring,’ and mapping people’s brains during surgery

Pristine tropical forests are seeing mysterious bird declines, and researchers are using brain stimulation during neurosurgery to tease apart language processing

Science Magazine Podcast · Science Magazine

February 26, 202632m 17s

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Show Notes

First up on the podcast, producer Meagan Cantwell talks to Contributing Correspondent Warren Cornwall about his visit to Brazil, where he observed firsthand what it takes for researchers to understand why bird populations in the Amazon and beyond are shrinking.

Next on the show, Raouf Belkhir, an M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Carnegie Mellon University, joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his Science Advances paper on a newly refined way to map awake patients’ brains during neurosurgery.

This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy.

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