These scientists chased a jet to learn more about ‘lean-burn’ contrails

About this episode

This episode discusses research on contrails and their environmental implications.

In this episode: 00:46 Collecting contrails at 30,000 feet Research Article:  Voigt et al. 11:23 Research Highlights Nature:  Sunken Soviet nuclear submarine’s radioactive release Nature:  History of ‘forever’ chemicals is written in Antarctic snow 13:34 Fakery in science April Fakes Day Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Topics covered

• contrails
• lean-burn
• science research
• environmental impact
• radioactive release
• forever chemicals

Keywords

• contrails
• lean-burn
• science
• radioactive release
• forever chemicals
• Antarctic snow
• fakery in science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Springer Nature Limited, Nature, Nature Briefing

Books & works: Voigt et al.

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