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This week on the show: It's important for us to know what animals are "saying." And new technology lets us do just that. Also, a select few of you...
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Apr 09, 2022
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
A start-up company in the Netherlands is looking for new solutions for renewable energy and finding them in plants.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Protecting your skin from the sun is a must. So is protecting coral reefs from toxic sunscreen.
- Added: May 17, 2021
- Length: 02:30
The aviation industry is one of the largest users of fossil fuels. The solution could be in the middle east where A branchy-like plant is looking v...
- Added: May 03, 2021
- Length: 02:32
Move over Tesla, a collaborator of Swiss Companies has created a prototype dump truck that might even be able to sell electricity back to the grid!
- Added: Apr 23, 2021
- Length: 02:30
Bees are good for much more than stinging. With bee populations rapidly declining, Cedar Rapids is finding a way to give them a second shot.
- Added: Apr 20, 2021
- Length: 02:30
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 2
Studies at Stanford University have shown that meal worms are able to eat Styrofoam and the enzymes in their guts break it down into something comp...
- Added: Mar 10, 2021
- Length: 02:24
One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is to discover a comet and have it carry your name. Teddy's first comet discovery is a member of a gr...
Bought by Simply Beautiful, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more
- Added: May 21, 2020
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 8
This week on the show: Happiness, fear and our atmosphere -
Our boiling hot planetary neighbor, Venus, might have once been similar to Earth...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jan 01, 2020
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: You be careful out there -
Indoor plants aren’t as good for you as you might think, why 12 million seahorses died (and ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Nov 13, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
This week on the show: Send in the bots! -
Right now, hundreds of power plants around the world are splitting atoms. But when a reactor malfunc...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Jul 10, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
On this week's Spectrum: An apple a day keeps the doctor away -
We take a look at how South Africa has become a world leader in penis transplant...
- Added: Aug 22, 2018
- Length: 30:00
World in Progress: A lab for the future – Smart Cities in Finland -
The "Smart cities" of the future will be digital and connected, using smar...
- Added: May 02, 2018
- Length: 30:00
On Saint Patrick's Day I discovered a comet which I share with my wife Annie Grauer.
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more
- Added: Apr 05, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 8
On December 25, 2017, while searching for Earth approaching asteroids in the constellation of Virgo, the Universe gave my Catalina Sky Survey teamm...
- Added: Feb 22, 2018
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 8
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Siew Naipal is een Surinamer, die in de Oekraine dat deel uitmaakte van de voormalige Soviet Unie, tot hdroloog, expert in de waterhuishoudkunde, i...
- Added: Jun 01, 2013
- Length: 28:12
