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637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 03/30/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Can vaccines stop the mutations? According to a large-scale study out of Israel, it appears the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine can...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 03/23/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: After months of lockdown and a few weeks of reprieve, Germany's heading right back into what might be the hardest lockdown ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Permission to Land
From: Israel Story
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In an ambitious “extra-planetary” project, six Israelis entered a small container in the middle of the Negev Desert, and pretended they were on Mar...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2021
  • Length: 21:07
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/09/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Of all the COVID-19 vaccines out there, do any work well against the B.1.351 variant that's spread around the globe? And wh...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 02/02/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: At this point in the pandemic, shouldn't we be able to stop the spread of COVID-19 inside nursing homes? And for those of y...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 01/12/2021
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We are told that contagious mutations of Sars-CoV-2 have ushered in a new phase in the pandemic. How important are anti-vir...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 12/29/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: In late January 2020, a doctor in Munich made a startling discovery about COVID-19 with major implications. It ended up be...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 12/22/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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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...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
621-Morning Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
618-Tremendous Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
617-One to Track
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
615-Solar Storm Forecasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 11/03/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Is the rapid increase of confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus around the world due simply to more tests being done?...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 10/20/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Could having Neanderthal DNA be beneficial if you contract COVID-19? How can scary movies, haunted houses, and apocalypti...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 10/13/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Humans are unpredictable, reality, chaotic. So how is it that from this mess, a certain kind of theorist can use tools an...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum (Science Unscripted) 10/06/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: - A small Chinese study suggests wearing glasses correlates with lower COVID-19 rates. The question is, why would that b...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/29/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Stillbirths, ethics & satire - Why have stillbirth rates gone up during the pandemic? What does it mean to behave "ethi...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
610-Atmospheric Gravity Waves
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit: Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science unscripted) 09/22/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Just how does COVID-19 impact the brain? A look at human brain organoids connects the dots. Also, we hear the latest from ...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
609-Lurking
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
608-Triple Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
Spectrum (Science Unscripted) 09/15/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: new data shows reduced stadium seating isn't doing what we hoped. Also, predictions for autumn and winter — and for patient...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11