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Episode 35: Getting Ahead of the Competition
From: Stanford Space Initiative's This Week In Space
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This week in space, Blue Origin gets ahead of the competition by, well, not competing, nobody can find India's lunar lander, and we discuss how ast...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 16:54
The Honorable Adam Schiff—Another Congressional Space Enthusiast
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: California Congressman Adam Schiff , Credit: Adam Schiff
They may disagree about nearly every other issue, but many Republican and Democratic congressional representatives find common ground where there i...

Bought by KDNK, WTJU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Nov 15, 2017
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
The Artificial Pancreas (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Doctors often suggest managing diabetes through diet and exercise, but that’s primarily for type 2 diabetes. Those who suffer from type 1 diabetes ...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSFR, and WOUB


  • Added: Oct 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
  • Purchases: 5
Repairing BRCA1 (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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About 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cance...

Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 4
Winging It
From: Big Picture Science
Caption: Winging It, Credit: Seth Shostak
We look at the evolution - and the future - of flight. Bats may flit around eccentrically, but they are actually more efficient fliers than birds....

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KTSW 89.9, WMUU-LP, XRAY.fm, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 11
Communicating Science Effectively
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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We hear from two experts in science communications, and talking about climate change. Edward Maibach is a widely recognized expert in public health...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Renewables and Solar are the Future
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Featuring interviews with Stanford Professor, Mark Z. Jacobson about efforts to go 100% renewable by 2050, and CEO of NEXTracker, Daniel Shugar abo...

Bought by KZYX, KFOI Radio, Radio Catskill, and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 4
How Ecosystems Change Due to Climate Change
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Two UCSC professors discuss their research into how water resources and whole ecosystems are changing and adapting to climate change.

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
How Plants Adapt to Our Changing Climate
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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In this episode, Dr. Michael Loik, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at UCSC discusses how plants adapt to changing climates, based on s...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Carbon Eating Microbes Make Fish Food
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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Merc Martinelli and Brian Sefton, owners of Oak Bio, discuss their company's plans to use carbon from the atmosphere to create products like fish f...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 2
Cooling the Planet with Ocean Currents
From: Coastridge Productions
Series: Planet Watch
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In this show we interview Dr. Alan Miller of "Cool it, Earth!", a company working to use ocean thermal energy technology (OTEC) to produce clean en...

Bought by KFOI Radio and WGRN-LP 94.1


  • Added: Feb 04, 2017
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Alan Stern and a Triumph at Pluto
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: New Horizons enhanced color image of Pluto, Credit: NASA/JHUAPL
Alan Stern of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond was in Pasadena for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division f...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more


  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Best of 2016: Insiders vs. Outsiders in Medicine
From: Distillations
Series: Distillations
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A look back at how outsiders have influenced medicine throughout time.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2016
  • Length: 13:51
Episode 11: So... What's On Your Mind?
From: Raw Data
Series: Raw Data: Season 1
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With all the digital text trails we're creating these days, what can we learn about our inner psychology, mental health, and well-being?

Bought by WXDU and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 2
Do You Need that Kidney?
From: Distillations
Caption: Advertisement encouraging people to donate a kidney., Credit: Science Museum, London, Wellcome Images
Rethinking the ethics of organ transplants.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 21:10
A Small, Distant World: Kepler 138b
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An artist’s conception of what Kepler 138b, its sister planets and its star might look like., Credit: Danielle Futselaar, SETI Institute
SETI Institute scientist Jason Rowe returns to tell us about the smallest exoplanet so far that has had its size and mass determined. Jason also ta...

Bought by KPIK-LP, KMUD, KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 7
Humans Orbiting Mars: Can It Be Done?
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: NASA's pathways to the Red Planet., Credit: NASA
A human mission to orbit Mars might be possible by 2033, and it might be accomplished at reasonable cost and with existing or nearly-ready technolo...

Bought by KWMR, KMUD, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 07, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 5
Local Muslims look to the sky - and their smartphones - to know when to fast
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: East Bay Muslims pray atop a UC Berkeley hill, Credit: Hana Baba
About 20 Muslim families are gathered on a hilltop outside the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, just after sunset. A water fountain bubbles, w...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 1
The SpaceShipTwo and Antares Disasters: Special Coverage With John Logsdon
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: First powered flight of SpaceShipTwo, Credit: Virgin Galactic
It was a terrible, tragic week for commercial space development. Historian and space policy analyst John Logsdon helps up understand the greater m...

Bought by KMUD, WYAP, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3
Grapefruit Juice - A Dangerous Mixer
From: David Niesel
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Every day, millions of people who take medications also drink grapefruit juice. I do. But most don’t realize the combination can be toxic and even ...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Going Viral
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Going Viral, Credit: Seth Shostak
Discover how viruses go from birds to pigs to you, how fossil viruses got into your genome, whether E.T. might be a virus, and what it takes for id...

Bought by WUFT, KKWE Niijii Radio, WRGY, WRIR, KREV-LP and more


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Mysterious Life of the Rubber Ducky
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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Rubber Duckies aren't just an old fashioned bathtub toy.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
Brain Injury and Couples
From: With Good Reason
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Five times as many people get a brain injury than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the aftermath of a traumatic brain injury can be devastatin...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Nov 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 1
Thousands look to the skies for Endeavour's victory lap
From: Valerie Hamilton
Caption: Space fans give SS Endeavour a thousand-camera salute, Credit: Marcus Teply
Space shuttle Endeavour took a final victory lap over California landmarks Friday, piggybacked on top of a NASA 747 on its way to retirement at the...

Bought by KPIK-LP and KMUZ


  • Added: Sep 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 2
Second that Emotion
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Second that Emotion, Credit: Seth Shostak
Why flies in milk gross you out and other voyages through human emotion.

Bought by KSKQ and KREV-LP


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2