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Spectrum 24/03/20
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The coronavirus lockdown - Never in history have so many human beings been stuck inside their homes. This social isolatio...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 03/10/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: An invisible enemy - Invisible, oderless, and it could be anywhere — the novel coronavirus has the perfect "ingredients" ...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 02/18/2020
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Sex, cats and race - Germans are having less sex. Wherefore? The memories of a dead cat can’t be transferred to a new, cl...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
576-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A recently discovered asteroid spends most of its time high above the plane of the solar system far from our Sun. Unknown asteroids on such a path...

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


  • Added: Feb 05, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Rajesh Khanna
From: KXCI
Series: Thesis Thursday
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Rajesh Khanna, PhD, has a 20-year career in Neuroscience and Pharmacology. He was a doctoral student in the Department of Physiology at the Univers...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
Spectrum 12/31/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Happiness, fear and our atmosphere - Our boiling hot planetary neighbor, Venus, might have once been similar to Earth...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 01, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 12/10/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: New Peers Review takes on AI - Ever wondered what Sci-Fi movies have to do with AI and robots in real life? Or how AI a...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 12/03/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: New Peers Review takes on neurodegeneration - The roving science game show returns to challenge two brave neuroscientists...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/05/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Change yourself - A new romantic partner changes everything, doesn’t it? Not according to a study on Germans. Also, a stre...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 09/24/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Sex, cats and race - Germans are having less sex. Wherefore? The memories of a dead cat can’t be transferred to a new, cl...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 09/03/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Change yourself A new romantic partner changes everything, doesn’t it? Not according to a study on Germans. Also, a stream...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
C-HIT The WorkUp: Medical Homes
From: Lynne DeLucia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Medical homes are producing better patient outcomes by a variety of measures. Patients seen in this environment get more primary and preventive car...

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 06:08
546-Snoopy
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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49 years after the Lunar Landing Module "Snoopy" was abandoned by Apollo 10 Astronauts, my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Carson Fuls may have spott...

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


  • Added: Jul 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
537-Earth Glow
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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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 Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, KRWG, WTIP and more


  • Added: Apr 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
527-Comet Groeller
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his fir...

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


  • Added: Feb 15, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Spectrum 01/29/2019
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: In the heart of winter (at least in the northern hemisphere), we take a look this week at what the cold does to our bodies....

Bought by WNMU-FM and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
C-HIT The WorkUp: Public Charge
From: Lynne DeLucia
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Some people rely on Medicaid to access health care. Or they use other federal benefits, like food stamps and housing assistance, to build the found...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2019
  • Length: 05:52
Spectrum 30/10/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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This week on the show: Drive into a child, or swerve and hit two grandparents? Such horrendously difficult choices will soon be programmed into our...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 09/11/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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SPECTRUM: Artilysin, contraception and Twitter Bot art - On this week’s show, it’s been 90 years since the first antibiotic, penicillin, was disc...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 08/28/20018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's show: We take a look at Earth from above. Will the United Kingdom win the space race and become the first European country with i...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Aug 30, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 08/21/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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On this week's Spectrum: An apple a day keeps the doctor away - We take a look at how South Africa has become a world leader in penis transplant...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
486-Martian Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
481-Fireball
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On July 8, 2018 a beautiful fireball Meteor was seen streaking across the sky in evening twilight. So far the American Meteor Society has receive...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jul 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
477-Hannes's Discoveries
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Recently, my newest Catalina Sky Survey Teammate, Hannes Groeller, had an excellent training night, working with Greg Leonard, on our 60 inch teles...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Spectrum 04/24/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
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Spectrum: 'Horizons' on the horizon - On this week’s show, we’re going to take a look ahead to German astronaut Alexander Gerst’s new space m...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 24, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1