PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

1082 results


Hunting Lionfish to Save Reefs and Indigenous Sealife while Making Beautiful Jewelry
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Piece image
Hunting Lionfish to Save Reefs and Indigenous Sealife while Making Beautiful Jewelry. Christine Raininger ” Lionfish Huntress” on protecting our r...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 22, 2022
  • Length: 27:03
  • Purchases: 1
Is it possible to turn my gas car into an electric vehicle?
From: Possibly
Piece image
Two years ago, we aired an episode responding to a question from a listener named Monica. She wanted to know if it was possible to convert her gas ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 2
686-Big Atira(464)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface on Jan. 6, 2019, was created by combining two images taken by the NavCam 1 imager aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft: a short exposure image, which shows the asteroid clearly, and a long-exp, Credit: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin
The recent discovery of an asteroid, whose orbit lies completely within that of the Earth, reminds asteroid hunters to continue to search near the ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Water is rising all around us. What should we do?
From: Possibly
Piece image
Our oceans are rising and taking over more land every year. Most governments try to fix this by blocking the water out and sealing the humans in. B...

Bought by KMXT and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 2
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Pain, Fear and Waste: The Costs of Unnecessary Care
From: Tradeoffs
Piece image
We explore “cascades of care” — how a doctor’s desire to be thorough can snowball into a harmful spiral of unnecessary care.

  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 18:18
Should I ditch liquid detergent?
From: Possibly
Piece image
Today we’re answering a question from Cori Myers- she’s the sister-in-law of our founder Stephen Porder. She wants to know if the laundry detergent...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 1
Peter Lee on Obamacare, Covered California and Where We Go Next With Healthcare
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Peter Lee, outgoing Executive Director of Covered California, Credit: Photo used with the permission of Covered California
This week, we speak with Peter Lee who has led Covered California, the state’s Affordable Care Act health benefit exchange, for a decade. As he pre...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 18:08
The FDA Super Bowl
From: Tradeoffs
Piece image
Every 5 years, the FDA has to renegotiate billions of dollars in user fees with the drug and medical device companies it regulates. Congress has to...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2022
  • Length: 18:33
What's the impact of buying flowers in the winter?
From: Possibly
Piece image
In the gray gloom of winter, I like to brighten up my house with a colorful bouquet of flowers. And I got to wondering, where do these pristine flo...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 2
The Lighthouse Art Center on their current Andy Warhol Exhibit, The importance of Art Education, and more with Curator Janeen Mason
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Piece image
The Lighthouse Art Center on their current Andy Warhol Exhibit, The importance of Art Education, and more with Curator Janeen Mason

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2022
  • Length: 26:18
  • Purchases: 1
Are some teas more environmentally-friendly than others?
From: Possibly
Piece image
It’s cold outside, so you might be reaching for a warm cup of tea more often. That has us here at Possibly wondering: are some teas more environmen...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
Off Script: One Pharmacist's COVID Woes and Wins
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Dr Kelly Kent with patients.
A pharmacist and co-owner of an independent pharmacy in Iowa shares what life is like nearly two years into the pandemic.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 17:28
Can we trust electric car batteries?
From: Possibly
Piece image
In recent episodes, we’ve talked a lot about electric cars, but we haven’t really spent time talking about what makes them work- the battery. What ...

Bought by Raven Radio and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Feb 08, 2022
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
What happened to acid rain?
From: Possibly
Piece image
When I was a kid, acid rain was a hot topic. Now, I never hear about it. So we wondered, why doesn’t acid rain make the headlines anymore?

Bought by WRFA-LP and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
679-Hammer(453)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist's illustration of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) which will crash into the asteroid Didymos., Credit: NASA/John Hopkins University/Cov
When Asteroid Hunters find a relatively large asteroid on a collision course with planet Earth, the challenge is to change its path to make it miss...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, RADIOLEX, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jan 30, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Harm Reduction’s Road From Fringe to Federal Drug Policy
From: Tradeoffs
Piece image
More people died from drug overdoses during the first year of the pandemic — over 100,000 — than in any previous year. In response, the Biden admin...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2022
  • Length: 23:30
How has climate change affected our winters?
From: Possibly
Piece image
Today we’re answering a question about the weather. How has climate change affected our winters? And what kind of weather can we expect in the future?

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2022
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 1
678-Greg's Comet(425)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet Lovejoy, Credit: NASA
Greg's comet comes into our neighborhood once per human lifetime and spends most of it's time in the lonely space high above or far below the rest ...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki Energy Healing & More with Jupiter Farms Massage
From: Ken Grey
Series: Maximum Health Radio "Quality Living" with Dr Ken Grey Holistic Physician
Piece image
Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki Energy Healing & More. How does it all work to benefit us, and what are some thoughts on choosing the best the...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2022
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
Medicare’s Unprecedented Alzheimer’s Drug Decision
From: Tradeoffs
Piece image
In early January, Medicare took an unprecedented step to restrict patients’ access to the first new treatment for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly 20 ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 22:47
677-30 Years of Fireballs(457)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: 30 years of fireballs, Credit: NASA
Fireballs are meteors which become brighter than the planet Venus and can sometimes be seen in the daytime. If you are lucky to see a fireball send...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Jan 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
How does plastic waste end up in the ocean?
From: Possibly
Piece image
Many of us have seen litter on the beach. And of course, there are those sad pictures of sea critters tangled up in plastic! Which made us wonder: ...

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2022
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 1

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones