The Great American Eclipse of 2024 store is now open Planetary Radio Tee Brain Organoid on a Microchip?

The Great American Eclipse is coming! Solar eclipses occur when the moon aligns between Earth and the sun, a rare event despite the moon's 27-29 day orbit. We just opened our 2024 Great American Eclipse store with safety glasses, stickers, and our Eclipse Diagram Print updated for the 2024 event. Keep checking this page for future additions including two new Planetary Society tees, an illustrated National Eclipse poster, stickers, and a pair of safety glasses for SETI.

Last year, the Planetary Society underwent a notable transformation of its brand identity, a change mirrored by their leading podcast, Planetary Radio, which welcomed Sarah Al-Ahmed as its new host. The podcast weekly showcases captivating dialogues with a variety of specialists, including scientists, engineers, project managers, astronauts, advocates, and writers, providing exceptional and stimulating perspectives on space exploration. The podcast's redesigned official t-shirt has been selected as January's Space-T of the Month.

Subscribe today and Planetary Radio will be the first design to arrive at your doorstep. You can choose from three subscription plans: 3 months (13% off retail), 6 months (17% off retail), or a full year (22% off retail).

We're going to try and do something just for fun. Once a month we will try and create at least one Science News graphic, highlighting the most fascinating scientific breakthroughs as they appear in our feeds. This month, we're celebrating a groundbreaking achievement: a lab-grown human brain organoid, successfully integrated onto a microchip, demonstrated the ability to process, learn, and remember information. Impressively, it even performed basic speech recognition, analyzing 240 audio clips of eight individuals pronouncing Japanese vowels. 

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