PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science

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

16248 results


[Simulated Part Two] In bed with machines: a real-life and sci-fi exploration of sex robots
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
Piece image
Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...

Bought by KWGS and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 2
CP - Education and research at the UC Natural Reserves System and National Parks
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Piece image
Dave looks at some interesting ways the University of California's Natural Reserves System are used for both education and scientific research. Som...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (DW) 02/13/24 - But how safe are you, really?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
Piece image
Do you feel safe when you're walking alone on a street you don't know? What might make you feel safer? Also, what scents might be able to do for se...

Bought by WFHB, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WMFE, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ecological Overshoot, part one
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Piece image
In this episode and the next, World Ocean Radio reports on the status quo, business-as-usual, tunnel vision conclusions at COP28 in Dubai, hosted b...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 04:51
The Space between the Mountains
From: KZMU Moab Community Radio
Series: Science Moab
Piece image
Sagebrush once stretched across almost 500,000 square miles from the Dakotas to California. Each year, a million acres is lost to invasive species,...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 20:13
Sports Analytics -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-14
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Tim Chartier discussed his new book, Get in the Game.

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., RadioFreePalmer, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
023: [Simulated Part Two] In bed with machines: a real-life and sci-fi exploration of sex robots, 2/16/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
Piece image
Sex robots have been a sci-fi staple since the genre’s birth. Now that more advancements in technology are bringing early generation bots to life, ...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Tradeoffs LIVE! Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Tradeoffs host Dan Gorenstein, ONC Director Micky Tripathi and Oracle Health Government Services Chief Health Officer James Ellzy onstage in Washington, D.C., at the ONC Annual Meeting on Dec. 15, 2023.
A live conversation between a top federal health official and a health care executive about how they must work together to keep AI from exacerbatin...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 24:19
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Piece image
A November visit to Gloucester Massachusetts for an Ocean Literary Conference (NEOSEC 2023) afforded W2O staff an opportunity to take a field trip ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 05:20
246: The Green New Deal: Launching the Great Transformation, 2/28/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Demond Drummer, Credit: Alex Akamine
As climate chaos and obscene inequality ravage people and planet, a new generation of visionaries is emerging to demand a bold solution: a Green Ne...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Season 1, Episode 14 - 'Cosmic Consciousness' feat Brian Thomas Swimme
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
Piece image
We are the universe experiencing itself, as told by a world class student of the cosmos.

Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 2
Alien Says What?
From: Big Picture Science
Series: Big Picture Science
Caption: Alien Says What?, Credit: Seth Shostak
Whales are aliens on Earth; intelligent beings who have skills for complex problem-solving and their own language. Now in what’s being called a bre...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KBBI Alaska, WRGY and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 16
This Week in Water for February 11, 2024
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
Piece image
It’s Getting Harder for Some Trees to Breathe. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 06:09
  • Purchases: 5
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Moon Landing Hoax Conspiracy
From: Skeptoid
Series: Skeptoid Radio Hour
Piece image
Brian Dunning takes a look at the history of the Apollo moon landing hoax conspiracy theory, and those who believe in it.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Unusual winter weather
From: WTIP
Series: North Woods Phenology
Piece image
Chel Anderson is a botanist and plant ecologist and she joins us periodically to report on what she’s seeing in our woods and waters right now.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 05:19
[Simulated Part One] Love at first (web)sight: romance with an AI companion
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
Piece image
AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic poten...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WHRV, KWGS, RadioFreePalmer, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 5
Stephen Most – "The Klamath River"
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
Piece image
River of Renewal, Myth & History in the Klamath Basin Since the last Ice Age ended about 12,000 years ago, human beings have traveled along the Kl...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Kathleen McLaughlin
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
Journalist Kathleen McLaughlin discusses "Blood Money: The Story of Life, Death, and Profit Inside America's Blood Industry," recently released in ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Constant Wonder - Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
Piece image
What can turtles teach us about what it means to be human?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Many Students Lack Motivation to Learn. What Can We Do?
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
Piece image
Between chronic absenteeism and shifting grading systems, we know many students lack motivation to learn. What can schools do differently?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KSTK, KOWS, RADIOLEX, and KMXT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
022: [Simulated Part One] Love at first (web)sight: romance with an AI companion, 2/9/2024
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied
Piece image
AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic pote...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
Science unscripted (DW) 02/06/24 - Why don't I like this perfect music?
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
Piece image
Three questions this week on Science unscripted -- Can music be too perfect? Why do people repudiate climate change? And why are we so afraid of sh...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WMFE


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
CP - Library science is (garden) life science, Staci Catron and Jennie Oldfield of The Cherokee Garden Library, Atlanta, GA
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Cultivating Place
Piece image
In our ongoing exploration of who gardeners are, where gardeners are, what they are growing in this world, and why that matters to all of us, we us...

  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Sugar Sugar -- Groks Science Show 2024-02-07
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Maria Dello discusses health issues arising from excessive sugar consumption.

Bought by KICI Iowa City and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones