Rachel Carlson

That was the question.

So scientists use microscopy and micro X-ray imaging to look at 18 species across the scorpion tree of life.

And all of that could support the idea that different metals may be related to different hunting methods.

So with all that being said, Sasha Pfeiffer, do you find scorpions more exciting and cool or more terrifying?

The app is honestly very cute.

It's got such great integration of podcasts with broadcasts with digital stories.

And it's just like stuff to help you know what's going on in the world.

We all know our phones are full of distractions, but you can make your phone a portal of insight and information and occasionally scorpion science.

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This episode was produced by Jeff Pierre and Hannah Chin.

It was edited by Rebecca Ramirez and Christopher Intagliata.

Thank you for listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.

Hey, short wavers, producer Rachel Carlson in the host chair today with a story about brain machine interfaces, brain implants.

Paul Niyajukian studied this for a long time.

He's at the Brain Interfacing Lab at Stanford University.

And you guys, Paul does so many things.

He's a medical doctor, an engineer, a neuroscientist.

Around 10 years ago,

Paul was at a

Which was so exciting for Paul.