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Science unscripted (Spectrum) 06/28/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The need for CHAOS (and an electric tongue)

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Jul 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Story of the Yucca Moth
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve told the story of the yucca moths and the soaptree yuccas many times. I love to tell it when I give talks and I’m not making this up, many yea...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2022
  • Length: 04:06
Science unscripted 06/14/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Big assumptions about monkeypox are changing ⁠— and you really need to listen to what a chatbot in California is saying.

Bought by WXDU and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jun 17, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 06/07/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A much-needed update for our COVID vaccines — and also, if it turned out tires were absolutely horrible for our health... w...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/31/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Word has spread of a therapy — only found in Germany — that can help with long COVID. What is it? And does it really work?

  • Added: Jun 04, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/24/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A look at why some people just... aren't that interesting to be around. Also, the 'infection app' that doesn't exist.

  • Added: May 27, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/17/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: An unusual experiment has cats staring at cat faces, while Dutch researchers go full sci-fi and "brain scan" an image out o...

  • Added: May 20, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/10/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The stuff you breathe out can tell an enormous amount about your health — and intentions.

  • Added: May 13, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 05/03/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Studies out of South Africa indicate that our natural immunity to Omicron might already be waning.

  • Added: May 07, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Esperanza
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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Tecoma stans angustata is in the Bignonia family Bignoniaceae and there are a bunch of species of Tecoma starting here in the borderlands with our ...

  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 04:51
Science unscripted (DW Spectrum) 04/26/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: We know now that pigs can express their happiness (or sadness) vocally. But did you know that those emotions can be manipul...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
691-Earth-Venus Shuttle(474)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A 100 foot diameter asteroid is spotted on one of its regular trips between the orbits of Venus and Earth. Its ultimate fate is to collide with one...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 24, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 04/19/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: A less healthy Gabe returns to talk long COVID, new variants & the best corona metric we still have.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 04/12/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: He outran it for two years. But this week, COVID caught up with Gabe.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 04/05/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: It's important for us to know what animals are "saying." And new technology lets us do just that. Also, a select few of you...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: Apr 09, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/29/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: How could a diabetes medicine be connected with a '40% increase' in birth defects? And with stealth omicron now dominating....

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and WXDU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
687-Returnee(465)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid, Credit: NASA
After being lost for ten years, the asteroid 2010 WC9 was re-discovered about a week before it came very close to Earth.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/22/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The coronavirus is spreading in Germany like never before. And restrictions are vanishing as if the pandemic didn't exist....

  • Added: Mar 26, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/15/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: 'Nobody in Ukraine is safe' - We spoke to a theoretical physicist on the ground in Ukraine about his life, his work dur...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 19, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Tyto alba
From: KXCI
Series: Growing Native with Petey Mesquitey
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I’ve known barn owls since I was a kid in Kentucky and I always saw them in barns roosting or nesting up high in the rafters. I remember finding a ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 04:43
685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/08/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Just as a pandemic 'ends,' a (potentially cataclysmic) war of aggression begins — with no end in sight.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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


  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Science unscripted (Spectrum) 03/01/2022
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: When a child asks you about war and impending death, what exactly should you say? In other news, the Black Death may not ha...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
683-TESS(460)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: TESS Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
To find planets close to home NASA has launched TESS the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite which will monitor more than 200,000 nearby, stars over the...

Bought by KENW, Simply Beautiful, KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9