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You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. Hey, Short Wavers, Regina Barber here. And Rachel Carlson. With our biweekly science news roundup featuring Juana Summers of All Things Considered.
Hey, Juana. Hi, excited to be here. I hear we're talking about one of my favorite things, running, and how running a marathon can change your brain.
Yep. Plus, we're talking about fermenting food in space and what it does to its taste.
And scientists have solved a longstanding mystery of how hordes of bats emerging from caves avoid bat-on-bat collisions.
I'm intrigued, y'all. All that on this episode of Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
Support for NPR and the following message come from Jarl and Pamela Moan, thanking the people who make public radio great every day and also those who listen.
All right. Just to start off, tell me about marathon running. I'm training for one myself, so I'm really interested in this story.
Yeah. Okay. So especially if you're training for a marathon, I think we can both imagine that running one would take a lot of energy. Neuroscientist Carlos Matute told me he's done 18 marathons, so he really knows it's exhausting. And he told me that he wondered, how do runners' bodies get the energy they need to make it to the finish line?
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