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Robert Tymofichuk, a high school science teach built a Hovercraft from salvaged car parts.
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- Added: Sep 23, 2024
- Length: :58
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For the past three and a half decades, zebra and quagga mussels have fundamentally altered the ecology and hijacked the food web of the Great Lakes...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 15:15
A deadly fungal infection is pushing some bat species to the brink of extinction. As scientists scramble to track the spread of white nose syndrome...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 14:35
A team of archaeologists looks for signs of prehistoric life 100 feet underwater in Lake Huron. But they need help narrowing their search. So, they...
- Added: Jun 13, 2024
- Length: 17:20
Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 53:57
Beyond the effigy that gives Burning Man its name, there’s another wooden structure: The Temple. Arguably, it’s the spiritual center of the event.
- Added: Aug 21, 2023
- Length: 39:07
Addiction expert Dr. Nick Kardaras, author of the best-selling book "Glow Kids" talks about how our kids are suffering psychologically from too muc...
- Added: Jan 15, 2023
- Length: 28:24
Ellen Marks' husband spent years with a cell phone held against his head. Then he got brain cancer. Coincidence? Maybe not.
- Added: Dec 12, 2022
- Length: 28:45
Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...
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- Added: Sep 01, 2022
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
Hear the story of Space IL and their attempted journey to the moon.
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 23:46
This is Threshold Season 4: “Time to 1.5” In this episode we travel to northern Sweden to explore how a greener process could revolutionize the iro...
- Added: May 19, 2022
- Length: 49:00
A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...
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- Added: Apr 04, 2022
- Length: 01:24:16
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We keep hearing (and saying) that solving climate change is really hard. But we actually know what we need to do—and have the technology to do it—r...
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- Added: Mar 16, 2022
- Length: 01:02:39
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Ride along with a sanitation worker who collects everything in San Francisco’s blue bins, and learn some dos and don’ts of recycling at a Recology ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2021
- Length: 29:30
The pandemic wreaks havoc on the Carbon XPRIZE – it turns out, additional delays won't be the only impact. Upon arriving in Gillette, Cooper is in ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2021
- Length: 51:18
Dimensional Energy is at a crossroads with the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE: can they afford to stay in? Their situation raises larger questions about t...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 49:50
Cooper can't wait any longer to see carbon capture utilization technology, so he makes a slightly abnormal reporting trip… across the country. He w...
- Added: Jun 28, 2021
- Length: 52:42
It's the summer of 2019. Two more coal companies have filed for bankruptcy, and hundreds of workers are left in the lurch. Meanwhile, Jason Salfi i...
- Added: May 11, 2021
- Length: 45:50
Cooper must abruptly leave Wyoming for an unexpected trip home. But there's no break in reporting on coal country: another coal-fired power plant h...
- Added: May 10, 2021
- Length: 46:20
Dutch engineers find a way to bring drinkable water to South Africans by combining it with their favorite sporting pastime.
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Ears Adrift's MC2 Sonja Wickard interviews scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory about the advancements in body armor technology.
- Added: Nov 05, 2020
- Length: 08:03
Schools have reopened in Fall 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic, and educators are putting in overtime to make it work. Four educators speak about th...
- Added: Oct 31, 2020
- Length: 46:33
Forty years after Carl Sagan’s ‘Golden Records’ began their long voyage into the depths of outer space, Eyal Gever - an Israeli high-tech-wunderkin...
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 31:11
This episode of the FEHLER podcast is an exploration of mistakes in science and their connection to art. Listen for more!
- Added: Oct 09, 2020
- Length: 14:27
Listen to this story on how an act of benign neglect transformed Southwest Ohio based WYSO from a small public radio station into a community.
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- Added: Jul 16, 2020
- Length: 30:33
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