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Lead - The Pernicious Poison

From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News

Doug and Patti speak with "Lead Safe Mama" Tamara Rubin

Are sewers the best way to deal with stormwater?

From: Possibly

Paved surfaces like roads, sidewalks, and driveways send stormwater into our sewers, but engineering solutions that filter water through the ground...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, and KICI Iowa City

Are we close to 100% renewable energy?

From: Possibly

For decades now, people have been installing solar panels, wind turbines and more to transition our energy to renewable sources – but we wondered, ...

Bought by KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, KTNA, and WRFA-LP

Why did I see a bunch of dead fish in the Providence River?

From: Possibly

One Possibly listener wondered why she saw so many dead fish in the water last spring. Turns out it’s called a fish kill – which can happen when th...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and Raven Radio

How can buses become a climate solution?

From: Possibly

The transportation sector is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gasses in the U.S., and cars make up most of those emissions. So how can public ...

Bought by WRFA-LP, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana

Feet To The Fire

From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix

Jess talks with California's Attorney General Rob Bonta about a historic lawsuit he filed against Big Oil to hold them accountable for the devastat...

786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more

777-Psyche Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by KCHW, Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

770- Hycean Worlds

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: This artist’s concept shows what exoplanet K2-18 b could look like based on science data., Credit: NASA, CSA, ESA, J. Olmsted (STScI), Science: N. Madhusudhan (Cambridge University)

Hycean Worlds, with masses between Earth and Neptune which have thin hydrogen rich atmospheres above a liquid water ocean may be very common in ou...

Bought by KCHW, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, Raven Radio, KGLP and more

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 07/19/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Should we just… ignore the (pretty solid) health data saying we shouldn't drink until middle age?

Bought by WXDU

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/29/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/01/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care

From: Tradeoffs

We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/01/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: We received so many messages this past week about the lopsided male COVID-19 mortality rate. Maybe you wrote one of them?

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/25/2022

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Getting COVID-19 had an impact on getting pregnant — and also, what actually causes two people to stay together?

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 10/05/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...

Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/18/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Have an ear for birdsong? Neither do we. But with a couple clues (and a digital tool), we think you can solve our bird quiz...

World in Progress 04/29/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW

This week on the show: Who owns space? - We dive deep into outer space. Who owns space? Who owns mineral resources and water? The race is on — i...

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/23/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Efficacy, side effects, dosage, intervals: It seems like every day we're bombarded with new information about COVID-19 vac...

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/26/2021

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Remember those jokes about "2020 vision"? Well a new study suggests that stay-at-home measures during that year may have ca...

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 12/22/2020

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Sifting through the 100+ episodes we've done this year about the coronavirus has given us time to reflect on what we've a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 12/08/2020

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Swine flu, bonkers 'science' & who shouldn't be vaccinated - Which lessons should — and shouldn't — be drawn from the H1...

Bought by WXDU

Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/08/20

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: "rapid tests" are on the way, but how — and where — will we actually get our hands on them? Also, why countries in Africa h...

Bought by WRKF

Spectrum (Science Unscripted) 07/21/2020

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Vanishing antibodies, new vaccines & a mutating virus - In this episode, we look at how the coronavirus — and the hum...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle

Spectrum (Science unscripted 07/07/2020

From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

This week on the show: Blood, mouthbreathers, influencers & more - In this episode, how your blood type could affect COVID-19, info in the age ...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle

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