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Technology has done great things for medicine: Machines can help keep hearts beating and lungs breathing. Electronic medical records help doctors k...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2012
  • Length: 07:34
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District is required to post warning signs near every sewer overflow., Credit: (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
St. Louis is one of hundreds of older cities across the country facing the challenge of dealing with an aging sewer system. This summer, the Metro...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 03:54
Caption: The FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Team, Missouri Task Force 1, Credit: Missouri Task Force 1
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, more than 50,000 rescue and recovery workers converged at the World Trade Center. Among them were the 62 members o...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:55
Caption: The New Madrid earthquakes broke up rock like this section of rock face, which was later filled with sand. This photo, from Mississippi County, Mo., was taken in 1904. , Credit: M.L. Fuller (Image 336) / USGS
Exploring the scientific debate over the risk of another major earthquake along the New Madrid fault system in the Midwest.

  • Added: Aug 28, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: Diagram of the holometer at Fermi Lab
In this episode, stories of two researchers: one measuring the shape of music, and another hunting for signs that the world is flat.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Aug 10, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Here's one silver lining to a slow economy: High recycling rates. Americans are wasting far less, and recycling far more. Nowhere is the trend as s...

Bought by KZYX, WRVO Public Media, WTIP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 04, 2011
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Lisa Utschig holds a vial of the protein active in photosynthesis.
In this installment, we consider why photosynthesis remains a puzzle to science. And we’ll find out how a research team at Argonne National Laborat...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and KUT


  • Added: Aug 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sheila Murphy
Woody Allen made hypochondria famous as a source of self-deprecating humor, but this clinical condition can be seriously debilitating for individua...

Bought by PRX Remix and Jazz 91.9 WCLK


  • Added: Jul 11, 2011
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Torbjörn Törnqvist says sea-level rise will overtake natural subsidence as a cause of land loss., Credit: Barry Yeoman
Most of us shudder to imagine the impact of another large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and for good reason. A spill in future decades could hav...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:36
Caption: High magnification micrograph of a liver with cirrhosis. Cirrhosis is a condition caused by hepatitis C., Credit: (via Wikimedia Commons)
In May, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved two new drugs to treat hepatitis C, a virus that can cause liver damage and cancer. The...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Antelope trying to move through deep snow , Credit: David Grubbs, Billings Gazette
Biologists estimate thousands of pronghorn antelope died in Montana over the long, harsh winter...thousands more are stranded at the Fort Peck Rese...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:11
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There are certain questions that get scientists really excited – discoveries that are big, tantalizing, and often, far out of reach. Even if they’r...

Bought by WDBM, WTJU, KUT, and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: May 18, 2011
  • Length: 08:40
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
We need to move forward to find a cause for Autism without fear to question and innovate and just maybe get closer to understanding what we're deal...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 12:41
Caption: Mosquito Net
According to scientists from all over the world approximately 1 million people die of malaria every year. The world community spends billions of d...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The earth at night is still bright!, Credit: International Dark Sky Association
Turns out, light pollution could be even worse for us than previously thought.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 03:41
  • Purchases: 3
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The Youth News Initiative creates a platform for young women of color to give their unique perspective on issues they face in their communities.

  • Added: Sep 23, 2010
  • Length: 04:50
Caption: Thomas Azwell with tea tank, Port Sonoma, CA, Credit: Catherine Girardeau
A UC Berkeley researcher is attacking toxic hydrocarbons left over from oil spills with microbes, earthworms, and a few acres of land. Catherine Gi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 11, 2010
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A student presents the product JustMilk, a plastic nipple shield HIV positive moms could use to prevent the spread of HIV to their children
During the month of July, Colorado State University in Fort Collins is hosting 48 budding entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors from 17 countries...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
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On this edition, we’ll hear part two of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll look at how climate c...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Tillamook Floodplain, Credit: Barbara Bernstein
On this edition, we’ll hear part one of a documentary called Heavy Weather, produced by freelancer Barbara Bernstein. She’ll explore the connection...

Bought by WUAL and The Neighborhood


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A North Carolina businessman makes a living selling a pill that might save your life in a nuclear meltdown. In his line of work, fear is good for b...

Bought by EconomyBeat Podcast and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: 03:23
  • Purchases: 2
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The health-care debate is focused on quantity: how many people – and how much care they will get. But perhaps quality, rather than quantity of care...

Bought by KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Nov 12, 2009
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Imerman Park sits on the flood plain of the Tittabawassee River.  Signs along the trail warn visitors about dioxin contamination in some of the park's soil., Credit: Shawn Allee
Shawn Allee looks at a dioxin and soil study and how the science might influence other clean-ups around the country.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
Caption: Residents are warned by Dow to 'enter at their own risk', Credit: Vincent Duffy
A Preview of the series "Dioxin Delays" by the Environment Report

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:37
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Duke Energy is now renting business rooftops to set up a distributed solar network. The project has timely benefits for several North Carolina bus...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2009
  • Length: 02:35