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A single drug may help regenerate lost or damaged tissue.

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: This house in central Oklahoma was damaged in 2011 by an earthquake caused by injection disposal wells deep below the ground., Credit: Brian Sherrod/USGS/Creative Commons License 2.0, via flickr
What’s behind the sudden surge in earthquakes in the middle of the United States?

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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New microelectronic devices may get their energy through Wi-Fi signals.

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  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Narwhals breaching,, Credit: Glenn Williams/NIST/Public Domain, via Wikipedia
While going about their daily routines, marine animals outfitted with sensors can collect data on ocean conditions in places that would be dangerou...

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A new diagnostic test identifies a patient’s entire viral history with just a pinprick of blood.

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  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Researchers look into whether the sounds produced by wind farms disturb some imperiled birds.

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Powerful computer tools are helping musicologists study the evolution of popular music.

Bought by KMUD, WABE, KMXT, and WLPR


  • Added: May 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Expansion of the ventral grooved blubber during a fin whale lunge., Credit: University of British Columbia
Baleen whales have rubbery nerves that allow them to stretch to twice their length when they feed.

Bought by KMXT and WLPR


  • Added: May 08, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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The internet has transformed classroom education around the world. Here in Minneapolis, the Cowles Center for Dance is doing something unique--offe...

Bought by WABE and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2015
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 2
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2014 Science Breakthroughs of the Year: The rise of the pint-sized satellite.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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Virtual “bodyswapping” helps people set aside unconscious biases towards others.

  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: SEM of MRSA, Credit: (Janice Carr/Deepak Mandhalapu/M.H.S./CDC)
Researchers are testing a vaccine against life-threatening antibiotic resistant bacteria.

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Researchers make new inroads into preventing age-related diseases.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Caryn Lerman, Ph.D. led the MRI study of smoker's brains., Credit: Caryn Lerman (University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Brain scans can predict a quitter’s likelihood of smoking again.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Chemical structure of fructose., Credit: (That kiwi guy/Wikipedia)
Does the sugar fructose fool us into eating more calories than we need?

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Both younger and older people can readily learn new information, but older people have a harder time filtering out irrelevant and distracting infor...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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Caption: Touching the miniature buildings on the map activates auditory information and directions. , Credit: University of Buffalo
3-D talking maps use a variety of sensory modalities to help the visually impaired find their way around college campuses and other institutions.

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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You can thank fruit flies for your favorite wine’s fruity “nose”.

Bought by WVTF, WKSU, and KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
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When children are adopted internationally, the first language they hear as babies may not be entirely lost.

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  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A brainwave-triggered implant which could potentially turn on genes controlling the production of therapeutic proteins., Credit: March Folcher/ETH Zurich
Could brainwaves one day trigger an implant that stops epilepsy and chonic pain episodes before they begin?

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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Caption: A black forest female Aedes aegypti formosus (left) bites animals and a brown domestic female Aedes aegypti (right) bites humans. , Credit: Photo credit: Lindy McBride
Thousands of years ago, the mosquitoes that now transmit dengue fever made the switch from biting forest animals to seeking out humans.

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
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Brain scans reveal our political leanings.

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  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary, Credit: From the The New York American newspaper, dated June 20, 1909.
Learning about the immune system from people who catch germs but don’t get sick.

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  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Isaac Cann, Credit: L. Brian Stauffer
Human gut microbes could break down grasses into sugars for biofuel production.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1