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Owning The Clouds
From: Steven Jackson
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Cloud seeding -- intervening in clouds to squeeze out precipitation -- is done all over the world. But it's not an exact science; we still have muc...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, The Allegheny Front: Reporting on the Environment, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:38
  • Purchases: 3
Building the geologic history of Game of Thrones
From: Generation Anthropocene
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Ever wonder what Westeros looked like long before the Starks, Baratheons, Lannisters, or Targaryens roamed its surface? How far back can we really ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:07
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 2: How To Do Science: Eat Lunch and Drink Coffee
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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Two professors walk up to a lunch truck, and the conversation they have there may change the way we study microbiology. Sometimes science has a lot...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:21
Aquarium Disasters
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Jaymee and her fish tank, Credit: Alex Johnson, Destination DIY
Destination DIY producer Jaymee Cuti shares some stories of home aquariums gone wrong.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 06:56
  • Purchases: 1
The Field Trip Podcast: Wetlands
From: The Field Trip Podcast
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Experiencing Antarctica
From: Andrew Hiller
Caption: A view from the tent, Credit: Cari Corrigan
There are places in Antarctica so thick with meteorites that you can find them like a child would shells on the beach. Others plunge into the ice ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 31, 2010
  • Length: 08:50
  • Purchases: 2
Lemmings from Heaven
From: Rebecca Sheir
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UnDisney-fying a tiny critter of huge -- and heavenly -- importance.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: May 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 2
New Planet for Old
From: Merle Kessler
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Science has discovered a new planet. Can we go there?

  • Added: May 05, 2007
  • Length: 01:27
Flying squirrels + treadmills = Science!
From: John Ryan
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Alaskan squirrels can fly, but can they run?

  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 02:08
Cleaning Up Washington DC's "other" river.
From: Next Generation Radio
Series: NPR's Next Generation Radio
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Cleaning up Washington D.C's "other" river.

  • Added: Apr 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:47
Under the skin at the Museum of Verterbrate Zoology
From: Nathanael Johnson
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An stroll through the gory depths of a UC Berkeley Museum preparation lab -- the place where animals are skinned and stuffed for posterity -- in th...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2006
  • Length: 11:44
Finally: A Cure For Nervous Sheep
From: Merle Kessler
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Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?

Bought by KUSP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2004
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 1