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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
While most teenagers balk at cleaning their rooms, Fionn Ferreira is cleaning the world's oceans from microplastics. Fionn incorporated the use of ...
- Added: Mar 11, 2021
- Length: 02:24
- 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
- Added: Jun 01, 2018
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 4
Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Captive-bred California Condors lack role models to show them how to survive in the wild. But wildlife biologists are there to help them navigate t...
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Things are going to the birds. Land that is. In the form of 1,500 land trusts in the U.S. that protect bird habitats.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Using sustainable fuels aboard the Sloop Clearwater
- Added: May 07, 2009
- Length: 01:45
Looking back on an argument, it’s nice when it turns out they were wrong and you were right -- and it’s tempting to say “I told you so.”
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Since the early 1990s, wildlife researchers with Operation Migration have been using ultralight aircraft to literally teach endangered birds a new ...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Bird watching can be pretty intense. Some birdwatchers travel deep into the Amazon to spy the exquisite Quetzal, or battle surf off the coast of th...
Bought by KOSU
- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Generations of kids did their Huckleberry Finn thing down by the Ashtabula, which means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. It once tee...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Like its name, the Echo Parakeet is bouncing back. And the Mauritius Wildlife Foundation couldn't be happier.
Bought by WYOU
- Added: Feb 28, 2008
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
Now you can whip up a meal while you work on your tan. And that's with free, non-polluting, energy from the sun.
- Added: Nov 12, 2007
- Length: 01:18
- Purchases: 2
Who would've imagined? A wildlife refuge in sight of New York City? Well, believe it! Because, it's the Long Island Sound...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Aug 27, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
We burn a lot of fossil fuels, and many of us would like to curb our dependence on foreign oil. Ocean tides and crashing waves could be at least a ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
