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Condors & Drones
From: Susanne Bard
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Drone aircraft could help teach endangered California condors where to find food.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 01:02
UV Light & Blood Pressure
From: Susanne Bard
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Moderate exposure to UV sunlight may help control blood pressure.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Peanut Acclimation
From: Susanne Bard
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An experimental therapy to control peanut allergies may induce genetic changes in the immune system.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Crow Mobbing
From: Susanne Bard
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Crows form mobs to antagonize, intimidate and scare larger birds away.

  • Added: Jan 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
Two Guys on Your Head: Relationships and Technology
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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If you live in the modern world, as I’m sure you do, you’re probably very familiar with the common occurrence of witnessing two people standing ne...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 11, 2013
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Grapefruit & Medications
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Grapefruit and some medications don't mix., Credit: Wikipedia
Grapefruit can interact in potentially dangerous ways with a variety of prescription medications.

Bought by WXDU and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 2
Seeing With Sound
From: Meg Cramer
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This story explores the ways that blind people can use echolocation to navigate spaces and look at what's around them, and the neurological connect...

Bought by Hark!, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Troy Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 9
The Elusive Digital Stradivarius
From: David Schulman
Caption: Data from 12 different locations let violinmaker Joseph Curtin digitize a violin's sonic fingerprint., Credit: David Schulman
The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 17
Space Crafty
From: Rendered
Series: Destination DIY
Caption: Cameron Smith testing out his homemade, hand-sewn space suit, Credit: Julie Sabatier
The maker movement is taking off and the private space industry is booming right now. So, naturally, some fearless do-it-yourselfers are crafting t...

Bought by WDBM, Marfa Public Radio, Hark!, New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:30
  • Purchases: 7
Backpacks... for Dragonflies?
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: Dragonfly wearing a "telemetry backpack"
Why itsy-bitsy-teeny-weeny backpacks may be the key to understanding how animals capture prey.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
Volunteers hunt for moose bones on Isle Royale (Part 2)
From: Michigan Radio
Series: Lessons from Isle Royale's Wolves & Moose
Caption: Moosewatch volunteer Dave Beck holds up a marked antler. Team leader Jeff Holden looks on. They mark the antlers and hang them in a tree so others know the antler has been found and documented., Credit: Mark Brush
Wolves and moose are at the heart of the world’s longest running study of a predator and its prey. The drama unfolds on Isle Royale National Park ...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 2
Watching the lives of wolves and moose unfold on Isle Royale (Part 1)
From: Michigan Radio
Caption: Rolf Peterson on Caribou Island, one of more than 450 smaller islands in the national park's archipelago., Credit: Mark Brush
Researchers have studied the wolves and moose on a remote island archipelago in Lake Superior for 54 years. These days, the wolves are in trouble.

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Space Dives
From: Andrew Bales
Series: Into It
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This week on Into It, Andrew Bales explores space dives, an extreme jump that tests the limits of technology and the wills of dare devils.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
Almost Awake
From: Sanjena Sathian
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Peter Morgan can decide what he wants to do in his dreams. A research psychiatrist at Yale University, Dr. Morgan studies and practices lucid dream...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 11:56
An answer to the American education crisis
From: With Good Reason
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A psychologist and education specialist is finishing up a major study that looks at how teenage brains respond to mental exercises. His findings su...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 1
Arctic Ice Melt
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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In recent years, sea ice in the Arctic has been melting at an alarming rate, and scientists are asking why. The science community has recently take...

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
Sound & Vision: Why Deaf People See Differently
From: Rebecca Sheir
Caption: The secret behind Gallaudet's circular classrooms lies in something called "visual attention.", Credit: Gallaudet University
Deaf people don't see better... they see differently.

Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 4
The Guardian's Science Weekly: The birds and the bees (x-rated version)
From: [redacted] [redacted]
Caption: Sex poster at Natural History Museum, Credit: Andy Duckworth
WARNING: contains frank details about animal sex... please listen and approve before broadcasting. We reveal nature's most bizarre and intimate se...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2011
  • Length: 39:24
  • Purchases: 1
A T-Rex Named Sue
From: Kara Sautter
Caption: Sue at the Stearns County History Museum, Credit: Minnesot Public Radio
A cast of the largest and most complete T-Rex ever found has traveled to the Stearns County History Museum in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.

  • Added: Oct 08, 2009
  • Length: 04:22
Tasmanian Devil on the Brink of Extinction
From: Jake Warga
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Travels around Tasmania to learn about the fate of the little Devil

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 14, 2009
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 3
One School District's Unlikely Solution to Budget Woes...Crayfish
From: Youth Radio
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Like many public school systems, Oakland Unified School District was facing serious budget shortfalls when it devised a system to save more than 20...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 10, 2009
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Excavating sites like this one in China link China's ancient seafarers with people throughout the Pacific, Credit: Bishop Museum
The origin of people living on islands throughout the Pacific has been a mystery for years. Now some archaeologists in Hawaii believe they have th...

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 05:10
Hawaiian Awa (Kava)
From: Heidi Chang
Caption: Jason Keoni Verity opened the first awa (kava) bar in Hawaii, Credit: The Honolulu Advertiser
For centuries, the kava plant has played an important role in many Pacific Island cultures, where it's valued for its natural calming effects. In ...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2007
  • Length: 08:06
Humpback Whale Song
From: Heidi Chang
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Why do humpback whales sing? Some researchers are trying to solve that mystery as they take you on a wild adventure in Hawaii. Experience some cl...

Bought by PRX Remix, Here and Now, 90.9 WBUR - Boston's NPR News Station, The Nature Podcast, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 6