Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks

<p>On this week’s show: Rising waters and intense storms make siting high-performance computer centers a challenge, and matching up spider silk DNA with spider silk properties</p> <p> </p> <p>(Main Text)</p> <p>First up on the podcast this week, News Intern Jacklin Kwan talks with host Sarah Crespi about <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/climate-change-threatens-supercomputers">how and where to build </a><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/climate-change-threatens-supercomputers">high-performance computing facilities</a> as climate change brings extreme conditions to current locations.</p> <p>Spiders are creeping into the show this week. <a href="https://www.iab.keio.ac.jp/en/about/member.html">Kazuharu Arakawa</a>, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Bioscience at Keio University, discusses his <em>Science Advances</em> paper on collecting spider silks and the genes that make them. His team used the data set to <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo6043">connect genetic sequences to the properties of spider silks</a> in order to harness this amazing material for industrial use.</p> <p>Visit the spider silkomes database here: <a href="https://spider-silkome.org/">https://spider-silkome.org/</a> </p> <p>This week’s episode was produced with help from <a href="https://podigy.co/">Podigy</a>.</p> <p>[Image: Dace Znotina/iStock; Music: Jeffrey Cook]</p> <p>[alt: a spiderweb with podcast overlay symbol]</p> <p>Authors: Sarah Crespi; Jacklin Kwan</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>