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Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00
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The echo of a pitcher plant helps bats find safety and helps the plant get food.
- Added: Jul 12, 2015
- Length: 01:00
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While going about their daily routines, marine animals outfitted with sensors can collect data on ocean conditions in places that would be dangerou...
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
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- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 01:00
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Researchers look into whether the sounds produced by wind farms disturb some imperiled birds.
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- Added: May 23, 2015
- Length: 02:00
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A short, evocative audio postcard made while visiting power-generation facilities in northern California.
- Added: May 13, 2015
- Length: 02:22
Baleen whales have rubbery nerves that allow them to stretch to twice their length when they feed.
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 01:00
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Mining in Minnesota has been going on for decades, but today, economic and environmental issues are raising important questions about the industry....
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- Added: Mar 26, 2015
- Length: 06:16
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A group of scientists are now trying to bring extinct animals - like the woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon - back to life, in a movement called D...
Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 06:28
- Purchases: 3
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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Those who are shaping the future have a pretty good idea of how it is going to look. One of those is David Rose. He’s an award winning entrepreneur...
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- Added: Nov 04, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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- Added: Oct 09, 2014
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- Added: Aug 12, 2014
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- Added: Jul 21, 2014
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When David Gottfried come up an idea for green environmental building 20-years ago, he ran into a number of hurdles. The building industry had been...
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- Added: Jun 24, 2014
- Length: 29:00
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In May 1975, Popular Mechanics published an article called “Cities In The Sky”, about plans for space colonies by 1995. Flash forward forty years a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Believe it or not, electric vehicles used to be more popular than gasoline engines. The first practical electric car in 1884, and for decades many ...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
We're getting closer and closer to making fusion power a reality - limitless energy created by fusing hydrogen into helium, the same process that p...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
New research sheds light on physical adaptations that allowed saber-tooth cats to hunt prey.
- Added: May 17, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Some animals took to the skies long before the advent of wings.
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Beaked whales set the record for the deepest and longest dives of any marine mammals.
- Added: Apr 05, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Satellites and unmanned aircraft could help shed light on the lives of one of the world’s most elusive eagles.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Scientists are using satellites to track the mysterious migrations of young sea turtles.
- Added: Mar 09, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Drone aircraft could help teach endangered California condors where to find food.
- Added: Feb 25, 2014
- Length: 01:02
