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Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

Science Magazine Podcast · January 22, 2026

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Tracking falling space debris via sonic booms, and getting drunk off your own microbes

Science Magazine Podcast

First up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome, when microbes inside the human gut make too much alcohol; how doctors can use a public repository, the Mexican Biobank, to guide patient care; and preliminary findings that surgery on the brain’s plumbing shows promise for Alzheimer’s disease. Next on the show, it’s tough to calculate when and where deorbiting spacecraft might enter the upper atmosphere and then eventually hit the ground. Benjamin Fernando, a seismologist and planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University, has shown that sonic booms created by fast-moving space debris shake seismic sensors, giving clues to angle of re-entry, breakup dynamics, and final location. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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First up with Jennie Erin Smith, Science ’s new senior biomedicine reporter, we delve into: autobrewery syndrome , when microbes inside the human gut make too much alcohol; how doctors can use a public repository, the Mexican Biobank, to guide patient care ; and preliminary findings that surgery on the brain’s plumbing shows promise for Alzheimer’s disease. Next on the show, it’s tough to calculate when and where deorbiting spacecraft might enter the upper atmosphere and then eventually hit the ground. Benjamin Fernando , a seismologist and planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University, has shown that sonic booms created by fast-moving space debris shake seismic sensors , giving clues to angle of re-entry, breakup dynamics, and final location. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy . About the Science Podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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January 22, 2026
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