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EPISODE · Apr 21, 2021

Brain implants, space junk and Elon Musk

from Lost in Science

It's all a bit Elon Musk this week, as Claire examines reports of his Neuralink company using brain implants to enable a monkey to play the computer game Pong with its mind (watch the video at https://youtu.be/rsCul1sp4hQ); and Stu looks at the impact of the Starlink satellite network, and how it's contributing to concerns of increasing space junk in low Earth orbit.

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