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The crashing surf, gleaming sunshine and warm beaches make coastlines look like...well, a relaxing place. But for the creatures that live there, it...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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To prepare for climate change, sometimes it's good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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It's like a breath of fresh...carbon dioxide? Okay, so that's what you'd be breathing...if you were a plant.

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Sometimes you don't have to look far to find a solution. While 300 million people in Africa suffer from hunger and malnutrition, the most popular ...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Ever think to yourself, "California and Iceland sure have a lot in common"? Probably not. But if you dig beneath the surface, they both harbor lots...

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  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Tropical rainforests are home to a spectacular variety of frogs. This rich diversity of species helps drive conservation efforts in the tropics. T...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KOSU


  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The next time your significant other complains about your stinky socks, just tell them you're doing scientific research!

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Domestic tranquility has its place, but we all need a little walk on the wild side from time to time. And, apparently, the same goes for bees...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The decomposition of tiny sea animals and plants that died hundreds of thousands of years ago created enormous natural gas deposits under the seafl...

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  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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What do you do when the land you love is 'slip sliding away'? Luckily for folks in Louisiana, legislators and scientists are looking at several cre...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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University of Calgary biology professor, Peter Dunfield, has been to hell and back looking for ways to keep methane gas out of the atmosphere.

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Are elephants going crazy? They've been destroying villages, crops, and attacking -- sometimes killing -- humans. It's happening at an increasing r...

Bought by XRAY.fm and KOSU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 2
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is killing fire ants using a method that sounds like it was inspired by the movie Alien.

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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You think gas is expensive? What about the price of platinum? Believe it or not, that's one of the things the automotive industry is looking at be...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A shark that strolls along coral on its fins. A shrimp with enough muscle and speed to shatter the glass in an aquarium. These and 48 other never-b...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Businessman Tom Herlihy has eight million employees -- eight million, hungry, little red worms, that is.

  • Added: Jul 01, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Face it. We're energy junkies -- and our fix is getting more expensive.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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While hydrogen is being touted as the environmentally friendly fuel of the future, a pair of Penn State engineers believe the future may be closer ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Maybe there's hope for troublemakers. Some creatures thrive in hot water...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Can we really harness ocean waves to make electricity? We might actually do more.

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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It started off routinely enough -- at least in this day and age of genetic engineering and other laboratory efforts to "improve" upon nature.

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Between rampant pollution and climate change, scientists say our oceans are ailing. But in order to correctly diagnose it, they've concluded they ...

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Veterinarians made a house call on the world's rarest cat recently to give it a high-tech medical examination. It was one of thirty Amur leopards b...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
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Ever been told you have feet of clay? How about feet of a beetle? Well now you can take that one as a compliment.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:32