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This week on the show: As support drops for COVID-19 measures, the people who are violently opposed to them are gaining strength.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Omicron won't be a wave, it'll be a wall, says Germany's top virologist. And the best response is to lock things down — aga...

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  • Added: Dec 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Forcing people to vaccinate is not an appealing option — at all. It might happen anyway.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: How do astronauts deal with their sex drives when they're up in space for months on end? And why is it so embarrassing to ...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: The BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine works great on 5-to-11-year-olds — so why isn't Germany in a rush to vaccinate them? Also, if y...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Have you ever seen a video of someone floating, just like in space, except it looks like they're inside an airplane? Well,...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: If you’ve happened to hear about an asthma medication that will ameliorate or perhaps prevent COVID-19, think twice before ...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Just how high are the number of COVID-19 infections that happen inside compared to outside? So high that aerosol experts ar...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Have people really gained more weight during the pandemic? How did brain researchers predict stock movements (or, by extens...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Gabe makes a house call with Conor in quarantine to find out he's tested negative for the coronavirus. But he's not out of ...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Can science help persuade those who are stubborn about rejecting science? What cat medicine have to do with developing a ne...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: I wish I could remember your phone number - Feeling forgetful? Then join us for a memory master class from a German world...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Six months in, pregnancy & your confessions - In this episode, we take a look back at what we've learned about COVID-19 i...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Is this really the place to look back at gravitational waves, AI and gene editing advancements? No, it isn't. Instead, we ...

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  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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This week on the show: Hands and feet - You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "po...

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  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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....

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  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: NASA Spinoff 2016 Book, Credit: NASA
In its nearly five decades, NASA has created or improved thousands of technologies, processes and innovations. Dan Lockney is in charge of making ...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KMUD, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Sep 05, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Cassini radar image of flooded canyons on Titan, Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/Cornell
Steep canyons on Saturn's moon Titan are filled with liquid methane. That's the discovery just announced by an international team of Cassini scient...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
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Brand new very fast memory, Windows 10 rolls out slowly, how to stay safe online: experts vs non-experts, and more Geeky News.

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  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 50:59
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Seal of the State of Jefferson, Credit: wikipedia.com
"Keep It California" and the people who want to live in the "State of Jefferson" battled it out at the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meetin...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:21:46
Caption: Mat Kaplan and guests at KPCC waiting for New Horizons to phone home from Pluto., Credit: Southern California Public Radio
Join our live audience for highlights of an amazing evening, featuring Jim Bell, Bruce Betts, Mike Brown, Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye the Science...

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  • Added: Jul 20, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
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Caption: The first human steps onto Mars in this illustration from the 2015 Humans to Mars Report., Credit: Explore Mars, Inc.
Explore Mars revealed the 2015 Humans to Mars Report at a recent conference in Washington. CEO Chris Carberry gives us a quick tour of this realist...

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  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Chang'e 3 Lander on the Moon, Credit: CTV
The annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union revealed lots of science, some of it astounding. Emily Lakdawalla was there with Advocac...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and WESM 91.3 FM


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 3