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749-Earth Glow(537)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Earth Glow, Credit: NASA/ESA
In 1972 Apollo 16 astronauts took an ultraviolet image of the Earth from the Moon which shows that like the Sun ,the Earth too, has a faint corona ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 04, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted 05/30/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — Pretty much entirely about animals

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
748-Ultima Thule(536)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Ulta Thule, Credit: NASA
Traveling an additional billion miles beyond Pluto, the New Horizons spacecraft is now sending back data on 2014 MU69, a strange snow man shaped ob...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, RADIOLEX, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: May 28, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted 05/23/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — Staying alive with a dead philosopher

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 26, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
747-Alone or Not(535)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Solar Sail and Laser Power Interstellar Spacecraft, Credit: Breakthrough Starshot
In our Milky Way Galaxy alone there are probably 25 billion planets located within the habitable zone of its star where there could be air to breat...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KICI Iowa City, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
The End of Smallpox
From: Radio Diaries
Caption: Rahima Banu and her mother in 1975, Credit: Daniel Tarantola/WHO
Only one human disease has ever been completely eradicated: Smallpox. Rahima Banu, a woman from rural Bangladesh, was the last person in the world ...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 09:37
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted 05/16/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: That part of your body below your torso.

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 19, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kenyan Ecologist Paula Kahumbu’s SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Award-winning African ecologist Paula Kahumbu, co-author of SECRETS OF THE ELEPHANTS, is one of the world’s preeminent advocates for elephant conse...

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: 10:31
‘That Rotten Spot’
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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When the plague broke out in San Francisco in 1900, the public health department singled out Chinatown—as if Chinatown were the problem.

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 51:34
746-Followups(534)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
Without followup data, many if not most of the Earth approaching objects would be lost as they move away from us leaving us with no idea when they ...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, WTIP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted 05/09/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — An episode to make your life better

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 11, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
745-100 Moons(533)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Schmidt Telescope Mt. Bigelow, Arizona, Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
A small telescope makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge of the celestial visitors to our neighborhood

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Raven Radio, KGLP, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Science unscripted 05/02/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup – Food for thoughts

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: May 05, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
744-Teddy’s Debut(532)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Opening the 60 Inch on Mt. Lemmon , Credit: CSS/U. Arizona
On a recent training night with Teddy Pruyne at the controls of our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona, this duo discovered six new Earth App...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, WTIP, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (DW) 04/25/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Why do I believe in ghosts?

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Apr 28, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
743-Alex’s Catch(531)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroids, Credit: NASA
On a cold windy night, with clouds frustrating his search, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors while obs...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP, KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (DW) 04/21/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — A couple anti-headlines (that matter)

Bought by WFHB


  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
742-Cuban Meteorites(530)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large fireball meteor which exploded over Cuba produced a number of interesting results.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KICI Iowa City, KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (DW) 04/11/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Science unscripted from Bonn/Germany.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (DW) 04/04/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — High frequency listening

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
740-Asteroid Billiards(528)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Vega's Asteroids, Credit: NASA
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth

Bought by KICI Iowa City, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Science unscripted 03/28/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Weekly roundup — The sound of grass (not) growing

  • Added: Mar 31, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
739-Comet Groller(527)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: NASA
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first...

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted 03/21/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Thin bodies & thin blood.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted 03/14/2023
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Has our show gotten worse? A guy named Jim thinks so. We don't know if he's right, but his email sent us to outer space.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2023
  • Length: 30:00

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