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Caption: Some tinnitus sufferers experience their phantom frequencies as buzzing or chirping sounds, like the song of a cicada (here, converted mathematically into graph form)., Credit: Photo Researchers
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Field Trip Podcast icon, Credit: MIke Smith
This week we go to to the beach with Field Trip Correspondent Laura Hautala and her Science Mom. Yes, we said Science Mom. And don’t worry, it’s no...

Bought by KUER


  • Added: Oct 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
We’re back with another installment of our “Summer Dispatches” series, this time starring Field Trip Correspondent Nicole Jones as she figures out ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 09:29
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
Here's the first episode in our “Summer Dispatches” series, in which reporter Megan Molteni braves the scarred landscape of Colorado Springs after...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
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20 years ago today (August 24th) Hurricane Andrew turned South Florida upside down. In this hour-long documentary, WLRN uses home videos, archival ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., 'The Sea', KUER, WOMR, WRGY and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 58:31
  • Purchases: 10
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A young woman's journey toward trepanation.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 16, 2012
  • Length: 20:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dr. Inoue and his "Shinya Scope". , Credit: Photo by Chris Inoue
Dividing cells are what make up all life. The idea of cell division was first published in 1855, but for nearly a century scientists debated, “How?...

Bought by Listenwise and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 07:33
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith
In this episode, we visit Leah Wade at San Francisco's Quiet Science Taxidermy Studio to learn about the art of making the dead live again ... sort...

Bought by KMXT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 2
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Today, we measure the body temperature of something that's been dead for 170 million years. Our guest is Dr. Robert Eagle, a researcher at UCLA.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 12:16
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If his name doesn't ring a bell, it's because we knew him ... millions of television viewers ... from the 1950s all the way through to the Nickelod...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
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A real-life story of scientific fraud

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Nov 03, 2010
  • Length: 21:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Minus 15 Percent Fat Free Milk Is Theoretically Possible

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Sep 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The Day The Earth Stood Still

  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: :50
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Go Where The Girls Are

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jun 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Don't look for this in medical journals.

  • Added: May 16, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Do people who live together gradually acquire the same habits?

  • Added: May 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Does increasing broadband only increase the volume of junk email?

  • Added: Apr 03, 2010
  • Length: :59
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Putting a blind man's tooth in his eye enables him to see.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When a scientist makes a mistake, it makes the news

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: :40
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
On many websites you can change your gender with a click

  • Added: Mar 15, 2010
  • Length: :47
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Refuse from keg party not found in sediment of lake

  • Added: Mar 14, 2010
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One gets news of medical breakthroughs by email

  • Added: Mar 08, 2010
  • Length: 02:16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If overheated in a microwave, coffee will explode

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2010
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
25 rats trained for a pilot medical project in Africa have identified 300 cases of early-stage TB - infections missed by lab technicians with their...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2009
  • Length: 01:12
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Women in the ultimate Man’s World – the labs and Shuttle crew cabins of NASA in the 60s and 70s.

Bought by KUHF, Morehead State Public Radio, KRBD, WVTF, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 82