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163-Space Junk
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Humans have left their trash in space. Space junk threatens our current activities in many ways.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
161-Half A World Away
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Using the long arm of the internet, Russian astronomers are making discoveries using a telescope in New Mexico, USA.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRZA, KALH and more


  • Added: Jul 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
160-ALMA Spots Juno
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Astronomers now have the ability to detect the faint glow from asteroids and other solar system objects.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
158-Know A Star
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Discover the American Association of Variable Star Observers and come to know more about a particular star than anyone else on Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
157-Kissing Frogs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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An asteroid hunter literally has to sort through millions of objects to find an unknown Earth approaching asteroid.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
156-8 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In the space of less than ten nights, my Catalina Sky Survey teammates discovered 8 new Earth approaching objects. One of them can pass closer to ...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
155-Full Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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For some people the full Moon is for howling. For asteroid hunters it is time to regroup and make improvements in the process of finding Earth app...

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
149-Near Venus to Past Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A potentially hazardous asteroid has been found which travels on a path which is quite different from most other asteroids.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KREV-LP, KALH and more


  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Episode 3: Microbial Warfare
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: Measuring Marine Microbes
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It's like gang warfare, but with really tiny gang members. Some microbes provide their relatives with protection, emitting antibiotics that kill of...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
12 Dead Deer. What Caused 12 Healthy Deer to Die Unexpectedly in New Hampshire?
From: Jay Scott
Series: Big Buck Registry's Academia Series
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Why did 12 seemingly healthy deer die off near a deer feeding station in New Hampshire in the middle of February? We explore answers to this questi...

  • Added: May 04, 2015
  • Length: 01:29:15
That Dragon, Cancer
From: Eric Molinsky
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When Amy and Ryan Green's son Joel was diagnosed with cancer, they decided build an inspirational video game based on this treatment. But Joel didn...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to the future, Sir: At the cusp of virtual reality
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Programmers show off their virtual reality experiments.
Cris Miranda believes in the promise of virtual reality. After decades of hype, 2015 may be the year that it breaks into homes around the country.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 11:41
StoryCorps: Joanna and Bob Ebenstein
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Joanna Ebenstein holding a taxidermy two-headed duckling at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
Space, Stars and Satellites (Version One)
From: Shawn McCullough
Series: 10 Min Sound Byte
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Songs related to Space, Stars and Satellites

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
Episode 006
From: John Brice
Series: The EDM Hour
Caption: DANCE music you can LISTEN to!
Brand new Electronica, Techno, Tech House, Trance, Psy-Trance, House, and Deep House tracks!

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
The End of Absence -- Groks Science Show 2014-09-03
From: Charles Lee
Series: Groks Science Radio Show
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Michael Harris discusses what the impact of constant connectedness means for the well being of future generations.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KMUD, KPVL, and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 27:41
  • Purchases: 4
A Rainbow of Noise
From: marnie chesterton
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There is a rainbow of noise out there - white, pink, brown, blue, purple. We try to recreate a scientifically accurate sonic rainbow and, along the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Hark!, Radio Newark, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 9
Health Care Hackers
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
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When you’re sick, looking up symptoms online is not always the best idea. But if you have a disease that’s poorly understood and often overlooked b...

Bought by KSFR and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 13:15
  • Purchases: 2
It Shoulda Been a Giant Step for Womandkind Too
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
When the U.S. space program was launched, women were tested for astronaut duty -- and passed.

Bought by Radio Catskill, KUOW, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jul 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
50-Asteroid 2014 JO25: What An Incredible Ride
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A remarkable Potentially Hazardous Asteroid orbits the Sun on a roller coaster type ride.

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
48-Large Dangerous Asteroids Still Appear Suddenly Without Warning
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A very large Potentially Hazardous Asteroid suddenly appeared by brighting 250 times as it rounded the Sun and crossed the Earth's orbit. It is an ...

Bought by Simply Beautiful, KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, WKCC and more


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
No End in Sight
From: Peter Frick-Wright
Series: 30 Minutes West
Caption: Brian Bushway, Credit: Danny Zapalac
As a teenager, Brian Bushway lost his sight. But as he adapted to his blindness, he began exploring his world through sound...and took up extreme s...

Bought by KSJD and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 22, 2014
  • Length: 15:17
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio Niki Strealy Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Chronic diarrhea can be debilitating and isolating, and as many as five percent of the population, or 15 million Americans may suffer from the cond...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Speech IS cHaNGe
From: Bishop Sand
Series: Sound
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It is easy to pick out human speech from background noise. But how can we do this given that all the parts of speech sound like all the other noise...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 08, 2013
  • Length: 08:24
  • Purchases: 2
Noor learns to manipulate the human brain
From: Tatyana Safronova
Caption: Noor at the piano, Credit: Tatyana Safronova
A couple years ago, this young composer discovered that rhythm manipulation affects us on a deeper level than anyone had imagined. This piece was p...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:42

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