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Historian and philosopher Yuval Harari writes, “When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured this stunning view of the Carina Nebula, located about 7,500 light-years from Earth. Nicknamed the "cosmic cliffs," it is essentially a nursery for young stars., Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI
NASA and its partners have revealed the first stunning images from the new space telescope. We’ll talk about them with Bill Nye and members of the ...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Cover of Lori Garver's great new book., Credit: Diversion Books
Lori Garver went up against powerful forces inside and outside NASA to create the hugely successful commercial cargo and crew programs.

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Alex Gilbert
It seems like these days every sentence that begins with "The Supreme Court..." finishes with truly appalling news -- another draconian ruling rega...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Asteroid Day serves as a reminder of the threat posed to our planet by near-Earth objects, and the campaign to protect ourselves from them., Credit: Asteroid Day Foundation
A co-founder of the annual, worldwide event, and the leader of the European Space Agency’s planetary defense program mark the 114th anniversary of ...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: John Fleck
Years of extreme drought have left the Colorado River at alarmingly low levels. Earlier this month, water management experts testified in front of ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bill Kreutzmann
This week on Sea Change Radio, we celebrate the summer solstice to revel in our planet and talk music as we dig into the archives to revisit our di...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: This image taken by The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 spacecraft on Feb. 27, 2021 shows the Red Sea, Nile River, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, and surrounding areas. North is approximately at top right., Credit: The Planetary Society
Celebrate the third anniversary of LightSail 2’s launch with Bill Nye and other leaders of The Planetary Society.

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11
Caption: Oli Mittermaier
Psychologist and pop culture icon of the 1960s, Timothy Leary, famously instructed San Francisco hippies to take psychedelic drugs in order to “tur...

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  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman is the great new memoir by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Credit: William Morrow
Psyche asteroid mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton returns with her excellent new memoir, “A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young W...

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  • Added: Jun 14, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: The Red Planet beckons., Credit: NASA
Mat Kaplan helped host the Humans to Mars Summit in Washington D.C., where much of the community that is working to get us to Mars gathered.

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  • Added: Jun 07, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: John Stoehr
The term “civil liberties” may connote different associations, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum. While some connect the term w...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Under the baton of Marin Alsop, the London Symphony orchestra records The Moons Symphony in its grand St. Luke's facility., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Join us for Planetary Radio Live at Imperial College London!

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Neel Dhanesha
What is a nurdle, you ask? Is it the latest variation on the popular New York Times puzzle, Wordle? No, not quite. Nurdles are the tiny little petr...

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: This illustration shows NASA's Cassini spacecraft about to make one of its dives between Saturn and its innermost rings as part of the mission's grand finale., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
We were there when the spacecraft ended 13 years of exploration and revelation at Saturn.

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 15
Caption: William Moomaw
“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...

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  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Astronomer and planetary scientist Britney Schmidt braves the Antarctic cold to prepare us for exploring ice worlds., Credit: Britney Schmidt
Britney Schmidt is preparing us for the day when a submarine will slip into the seas of an ocean world like Europa to search for life.

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  • Added: May 17, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Chris Fitzsimon
There are forces in the US that like to selectively bring up “states rights” from time to time – with the impending decision stripping the federal ...

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  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Perseverance is joined by Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, in Jezero crater., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
The Mars 2020 rover has rolled into an ancient river delta on the Red Planet. Will we find evidence of past life there?

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  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Mat Kaplan talked with Psyche mission principal investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton with the spacecraft beside them in this JPL clean room., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Suit up for a clean room encounter with the Psyche spacecraft that will soon launch toward the asteroid belt.

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  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Caption: Danna Smith
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is...

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  • Added: May 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Peter Calloway
More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Will humans go beyond low Earth-orbit to explore destinations like Mars first-hand? Or will we leave this to robots?, Credit: NASA-JPL-Caltech
Britain’s Astronomer Royal Martin Rees and science writer Don Goldsmith question the value of putting astronauts in harm’s way at great expense in ...

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  • Added: Apr 26, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: Peter Calloway
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Inspiration4 astronaut Sian Proctor greets the 2022 Yuri's Night audience., Credit: Mat Kaplan
Thousands celebrated the 51st anniversary of the first human voyage into space. We’ll take you to the Los Angeles party under the Space Shuttle End...

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  • Added: Apr 19, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 11