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AMOS 24-57: Ice Age Plant Survives Big Chill, 3/20/2024
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Ice Age Plant Survives Big Chill

  • Added: Mar 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 23-170: The Invisible World of Manuscripts, 8/25/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
The Invisible World of Manuscripts

  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 23.29: Ancient Roman Parasites, 2/9/2023
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Ancient Roman Parasites

  • Added: Feb 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
Early Spring
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Piece image
Spring is arriving early to North American wildlife refuges because of climate change.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, Spokane Public Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lost Whales
From: Science Update
Series: Science Update
Caption: Aerial view of some of the fish-salting tanks (cetaria) in the ancient Roman city of Baelo Claudia, near today's Tarifa in Spain. , Credit: D. Bernal-Casasola, University of Cadiz
Whales used the Mediterranean as breeding grounds during ancient Roman times.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, WLPR , and KENW


  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Small Town Archaeology
From: Science Update
Piece image
A town square offers a trove of archaeological discoveries.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
AMOS 17.133: Our Earliest Ancestor, 7/5/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Our Earliest Ancestor

  • Added: May 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
AMOS 17.078: When Continents Collide, 4/19/2017
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
When Continents Collide

  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Dialects & Society
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: PRX default Piece image
While the media affect our vocabulary, our accents are a product of our community.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Giant Armadillos
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: An extinct glyptodont., Credit: Carl Buell
DNA evidence reveals that the enormous armored glyptodont, an extinct South American mammal, was a close cousin to modern armadillos.

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 3
Historical Speech Acoustics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration., Credit: Philipp von Foltz/1852
How did historical leaders once address crowds of thousands, unaided by modern amplification

Bought by KENW and WLPR


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
NanoArchaeology
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: A 17 cm carved stone figurine shown inside the SEM chamber ready for non-destructive imaging and analysis, Credit: (Timothy Rose/Smithsonian)
Modern technology reveals ancient techniques used in the production of purloined antiquities.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Lactose Intolerance Genetics
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: The practice of cheesemaking goes back many centuries in various cultures around the world. (A page from the 14th century Medieval handbook Taccuino Sanitatis from the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, Italy)
Central Europeans developed a dairying culture at least 4,000 years before they evolved the ability to digest milk.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Nov 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Superspreaders
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary, Credit: From the The New York American newspaper, dated June 20, 1909.
Learning about the immune system from people who catch germs but don’t get sick.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Transgenerational Obesity
From: Susanne Bard
Piece image
Did now-banned pesticides contribute to the obesity epidemic?

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WLPR , KMXT, and WXDU


  • Added: Jul 26, 2014
  • Length: 01:05
  • Purchases: 4
Ancient Cancer
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Lesions indicating cancer in the skeleton’s bone., Credit: (© Trustees of the British Museum
Scientists uncover a case of human cancer as old as the Pharaohs.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Ancient Fish Bones Lending Insight
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: October 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
To prepare for climate change, sometimes it's good to get down to the bare bones. Fish bones, that is.

Bought by KOSU


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
Black bile
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A sad, melancholy element

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Pneuma
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The science of the soul.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:30
Fire
From: Distillations
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fire, from a chemical perspective

  • Added: Aug 20, 2008
  • Length: 01:31
The World of 1607 part 8
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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New Worlds, New Science

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2008
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Of Pirates and Scientists
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Tales of pirates and plunder have inspired more than a few Hollywood epics. Did you catch the summer block buster with Johnny Depp? But pirates le...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Dust Bowl Survivor
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: January 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Sunday, April 14th, 1935, mid-afternoon. A monstrous black dust cloud quickly forms over southwest Kansas -- and within minutes, people were runnin...

Bought by KUAC


  • Added: Dec 26, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
The World of 1607 part 3
From: WCVE
Series: The World of 1607
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Measuring the Macrocosm and the Microcosm

  • Added: Nov 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:02
Wolves Return to Eastern Germany
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2007 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf? Certainly not wildlife lovers in eastern Germany...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:30