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The Science Podcast for 7 July 2006 includes interviews on new research tying increased wildfire activity to climate warming, sequencing a nuclear gene from a long-extinct mammal, and the mathematics of music, as well as a roundup of stories from Science's free daily news site ScienceNOW.