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This week on the show: Conflict, hope and a dangerous national park - Why environmental protection clashes with local people in the DRC - and w...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Could having Neanderthal DNA be beneficial if you contract COVID-19? How can scary movies, haunted houses, and apocalypti...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit:  Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: Creatures great and small - From caring for baby monkeys in Kenya, once mighty lions in Sudan to genetically modified mos...

Bought by WXDU and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Statistically asteroid hunters have found more than 90% of the asteroids whose impact could cause global climate change. However, recently, my Ca...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Raven Radio, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: "rapid tests" are on the way, but how — and where — will we actually get our hands on them? Also, why countries in Africa h...

Bought by WRKF


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Megafauna - From whether the coronavirus crisis is helping or hurting the iconic wildlife of Kenya, to reintroducing k...

Bought by WXDU, WFIU, and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Sep 11, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

Bought by KCHW, KENW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KGLP and more


  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Schools open, antibodies fall & horses and llamas help - In this episode, co-host Gabe returns from the worst-hit coun...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Fighting for change - One year after the Indian government stripped Kashmir of its special status, we hear how Kashmiris...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Shock to the system - How are refugees and migrants – and their kids! – faring during the coronavirus pandemic? Their sit...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The many challenges of the new normal - The pandemic is making sexual violence against women and children more prevalent ...

  • Added: Jul 17, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: Splish, splash, comeback! - We hear about how some aquatic animals are undergoing a revival: Record numbers of sea turt...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: The ripple effects of coronavirus - The coronavirus pandemic has had and still is having a big impact on people's lives...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: - The 'disjointed' loosening of COVID-19 restrictions across Europe. Ahead of Poland's elections … is the country's dem...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Kacper Wierzchos was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy obj...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , KENW and more


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This week on the show: Hunger in Lockdown - In Guatemala, the Coronavirus pandemic is putting an extra strain on millions of poor people. In H...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2020
  • Length: 16:42
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Due to thoughtless outdoor night lighting on the surface and satellites in space the natural night sky is becoming a vanishing treasure. From cli...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio and more


  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
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This week on the show: The dire consequences of coronavirus - Climbing death tolls and infection rates are worrying us all over the globe. But...

  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: we examine personal choice in relation to CO2 emissions and other environmental issues. What changes have we made in our h...

Bought by WFIU, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], and KRZA


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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One of the perks of being an asteroid hunter is to discover a comet and have it carry your name. Teddy's first comet discovery is a member of a gr...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, WLPR , Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW and more


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: Because of the Corona pandemic, more than 70 percent of school children worldwide have been affected by school closures- t...

  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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Noctilucent Clouds exist at more than 50 miles above the Earth's surface or about 4 times higher than the tops of the most intense tropical thunder...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10