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Most insects communicate in a way that we can’t hear. A scientist at Saint Louis University is using a laser to eavesdrop on one insect’s “conversa...
- Added: Sep 11, 2015
- Length: 05:38
From the red eyes of a periodical cicada looking out: a bug's first person rendition from emergence til death.
Bought by KSJD, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WTIP, Radio Newark, Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jun 19, 2013
- Length: 07:42
- Purchases: 8
Join us as we speak with paleoecologist extraordinaire, Margaret B. Davis. She is one of the world’s foremost scholars of palynology, a branch of p...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 27:59
It's Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, time for dancing, eating and, of course, drinking - sometimes a lot of drinking. Now, as humans, we pay a price for d...
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 03:47
They're flat, they're slimy, and they hide under rocks on river bottoms. At up to 2 feet in length, the Ozark hellbender is one of the world's larg...
- Added: Jan 06, 2012
- Length: 03:59
We have a chat with arborist Bill Eck. He grew up in the forest, like a little elf or something! Seriously, he’s a great guy and he really knows hi...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Nov 10, 2010
- Length: 28:03
- Purchases: 1
Science is good and fun. We decide to restate that through our conversation with Linda Leigh, botanist, naturalist, farmer. Or is it rancher? We're...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Jun 03, 2010
- Length: 28:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 13, 2008
- Length: 04:25
Is there a sex-therapist in the house? Apparently, China's pandas could use some help.
- Added: Jul 26, 2007
- Length: 01:32
- Added: May 05, 2007
- Length: 01:27
Alaskan squirrels can fly, but can they run?
- Added: Apr 18, 2007
- Length: 02:08
Farmers in North Carolina raise a lot of hogs, producing a log of hog dung.
- Added: Mar 28, 2007
- Length: 01:32
The year 2006 was a heady one for the Laotian rock rat, a rodent thought to have gone extinct about 11 million years ago.
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Fire ants may be small insects, but their sting packs a wallop. They arrived in the U.S. from South America in the early 1900s, and have spread to ...
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Added: Dec 05, 2006
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 05, 2006
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 1
Scientists find way to soothe anxious sheep. But how do you know when sheep are nervous?
Bought by KUSP
- Added: Sep 23, 2004
- Length: 01:25
- Purchases: 1
