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"What gives me hope is watching the sparkle in the eye of a child, a young
mother, a middle-aged business person, or an elderly person when they im...
- Added: Apr 22, 2024
- Length: 58:02
Brian Dunning examines some interesting beliefs around food and whether or not they are supported by science.
- Added: Apr 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic are behind us and it’s time for an early reckoning of our successes and failures. An epidemiologist shares...
- Added: Apr 04, 2024
- Length: 21:30
A bottom up solution for saving rainforests worldwide.
Bought by KTRT RADIO INC and WOJB
- Added: Mar 18, 2024
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 2
Brian Dunning separates fact from fiction as he examines the talking points made by the many people who hate electric cars.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 59:00
- Added: Feb 19, 2024
- Length: 58:08
- Purchases: 2
Brian Dunning examines the evidence that humans are warming the earth.
- Added: Jan 27, 2024
- Length: 59:00
In recent years, scientists have begun testing geoengineering technologies to slow down or even stop global warming. But, is geoengineering safe? A...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Oct 30, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:04
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:37
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:48
After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...
Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 36:11
- Purchases: 3
When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...
Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP
- Added: Sep 29, 2023
- Length: 27:32
- Purchases: 4
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 05:00
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 04:00
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
One of the reasons we’ve created Exoplanet Radio is that Exoplanets are awesome. The idea that there are planets in orbit around stars outside our...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 03:48
This planet, VHS 1256 b, has recently been observed by the James Webb Space Telescope and it is a very interesting world. It is not like any of th...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 04:29
In our galaxy, there are many planets that wander alone in the dark, without a star to orbit. These rogue planets could have formed from the same m...
- Added: Aug 26, 2023
- Length: 03:59
To get anywhere in the galaxy at anything resembling a reasonable time, we need to go fast - some fraction of light speed would be best. Proxima C...
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 04:33
A massive, Jupiter-sized exoplanet has been discovered orbiting a small, low-mass star and this discovery is challenging theories on how planets fo...
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Aug 24, 2023
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
