Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW

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Spectrum: The fascinating world of science and technology

Spectrum is a half-hour weekly with developments in the fields of science and technology.

From advances that will change our lives to offbeat oddities, our team of reporters around the world keeps you up to date.

Meet Nobel Prize-winning inventors, be the first to know about innovations in technology or discover the meaning of research in everyday life. Background to science as it appears in the headlines and discoveries you probably never heard about.


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Spectrum 01/22/2019
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This week on the show: Kaboom - Like destroying things? We all do. So much so that scientists in even Europe are planning a 100-kilometer meg...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 01/15/2019
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This week on the show: It hurts to let your football team down - How can professional athletes who cause their team to lose by their blunders be ...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 01/08/2019
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This week on the show: Meat's delicious — but bad for our planet. The solution? Grow it in a lab. We also enter a German hospital to show you how ...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
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Spectrum 01/01/2019
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This week on the show: New Year’s Resolutions The most common aspirations for the New Year are to eat healthier, have more time for your family a...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 12/25/2018
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This week on the show: "Take a bite" Toxic banana production in Ecuador, growing your own vegetables at the supermarket, and the story of a piran...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 12/18/2018
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This week on the show: The true physics message of Christmas - What would you do if you got a text message from an elf — an elf who says Sant...

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 12/11/2018
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This week on the show: Homo instagrammus - Who on earth would pay 29 euros to take photos in front of blindingly pink backdrops? Instagrammer...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 12/04/2018
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This week on the show: A hyperloop dream for Europe - Amsterdam to Barcelona in about an hour. Wouldn't it be great if Europe had its very ow...

  • Added: Dec 05, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 11/27/2018
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This week on the show: Remember December? - It may just be the "Most wonderful time of the year," but Christmas shopping can act like cocaine on ...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/20/2018
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On this week’s show: how artificial intelligence is seeping into peculiar corners of medicine, why we should keep an early eye out for dementia, ...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/13/2018
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This week on the show: Your breath smells like emotional tension - Follow us into a darkened German cinema to talk about how the stuff we breathe...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 11/06/2018
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This week on the show: Half of young British people say they're bisexually inclined, how to become a Jedi warrior right here on planet Earth, and ...

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 30/10/2018
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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 10/23/2018
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Spectrum: The dogged, interminable struggle with diabetes - This week on the show, DW reports from a special conference in Bochum, where experts ...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 10/16/2018
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This week on the show: Tapping into the science of Oktoberfest!!! Just why DO so many people go to Oktoberfest? And how does nearly 8 million l...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 10/09/2018
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This week on the show: How do you "graduate" astronaut school? We ask Europe's newest astronaut. Also, the strange story of a roaring Himalayan flo...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 10/02/2018
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This week on the show: Tapping into the science of Oktoberfest - Just why DO so many people go to Oktoberfest? And how does nearly 8 million li...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 09/25/2018
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This week on the show: Can an electronic dog nose perform better than the biological one? Also, why sweat smells, a dip into perfume and Cambodia's...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:58
Spectrum 09/18/2018
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On this week's show: Can obesity induced inflammation reduce your ability to taste? How much CO² does one sandwich produce? You’ll be surprised.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
Spectrum 09/11/2018
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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

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