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798-Destination Enceladus

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Life on Earth appears to have formed in our oceans. Scientists are thus on the hunt for other worlds which have oceans of liquid water and thus po...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], WTIP, KGLP and more

Surprise! Plans To Resolve High Medical Bills Are Still a Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

How Pushing Hospitals to Give Away More Free Care Could Backfire

From: Tradeoffs

With high health bills drowning patients in debt, some lawmakers want nonprofit hospitals to give away more free care. But experts warn that could ...

‘She Didn’t Want to Die. But She Didn’t Want to Suffer’

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Steven Petrow (R) and Jay Petrow (L) kiss their sister Julie Petrow-Cohen. Julie used New Jersey’s medical aid in dying law after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer., Credit: Courtesy of the Petrow family

A handful of states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we ...

787-Far Out

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Milky Way Rising Over the Gila Wilderness, Credit: David Thornburg

In 2024, Voyager I is 163 times further from the Sun than we are and is the most distant, human made, traveler in the night.

Bought by KRWG, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

The Guru of Healthy Aging

From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast

Over the past 40 years, Dr. Ken Dychtwald has emerged as a foremost visionary and original thinker regarding the lifestyle, marketing, health care,...

Hope, Hype or Harm? What We Know About New Cancer-Screening Tools

From: Tradeoffs

Companies claim they can catch cancer sooner with new blood tests and full-body MRI scans. What are the risks and benefits?

Bought by RadioFreePalmer

786-Comet 31

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Alex Gibbs discovered his 31st comet while asteroid hunting in Leo with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Ariz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

783--Kacper’s Centaur

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists conception of a Centaur, Credit: NASA/NEOWISE

Centaurs have long puzzled astronomers since they have traits in common with both asteroids and comets.

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

777-Psyche Bound

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche Spacecraft, Credit: NASA

The NASA Psyche Spacecraft will use a multispectral imager, gamma and neutron spectrometers, and other instruments to map, measure, and characteriz...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., KICI Iowa City, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP and more

776-Naming Asteroids and Comets

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Sun and Asteroids, Credit: NASA

Historically explorers in many fields of human endeavor have been granted the privilege to name their discovery. If you find a new comet and it r...

Bought by Raven Radio, KUGS Bellingham, Wash., RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more

775-3 Close Ones

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Earth,Moon, and Asteroid, Credit: NASA and Texas A&M

During a six hour period three small space rocks passed through the Earth-Moon system. At discovery 2023 TO4 was in Pegasus, 2023 TD7 was in Aries...

Bought by RADIOLEX, WTIP, Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KKRN and more

774-Loss and Gain

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Vera Rubin Main Telescope Under Construction, Credit: Eric Christensen

The Catalina Sky Survey searches the sky as rapidly as possible in search of Earth approaching objects that could pose a threat to our home planet....

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more

773-Discovery and Recovery

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception of an Asteroid and the Earth, Credit: ESA

New observations linked with discovery observations 10 years earlier provide a significant improvement in the precision of our knowledge of 2013 T...

Bought by Raven Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP and more

More Hospitals Move to Confront Medical Errors Head On

From: Tradeoffs

One out of every four Medicare patients in the hospital is the victim of a medical error. Over the past 20 years, a growing number of hospitals hav...

771-Nice PHA

From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night

Caption: Artists Conception Psyche, Credit: NASA

NASA classifies 2023 SZ1 as a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid since it is larger than 140m in diameter and on its current path can come to about 6 t...

Bought by Raven Radio, WYAP, RADIOLEX, KGLP, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more

Growing Pains as California Adds Social Services to Medicaid

From: Tradeoffs

California’s Medicaid program is two years into the nation’s most ambitious effort yet to cover non-traditional health care services like housing a...

Medical or recreational? States Debate where Psychedelics Belong

From: Tradeoffs

A wave of new research is showing the promise of psychedelics to help with mental health conditions —- like depression and post traumatic stress di...

Medicare’s Open Enrollment Mess

From: Tradeoffs

Caption: Confusing Medicare ads are everywhere!, Credit: Leslie Walker/Tradeoffs

Every fall, an avalanche of advertising bombards the phones, televisions and mailboxes of the country’s 65 million Medicare beneficiaries. Private...

Ransomware Attacks: Bad for Hospitals, Deadly for Patients

From: Tradeoffs

In 2021, University of Minnesota health economist Hannah Neprash listened to a Tradeoffs story on ransomware in health care and was inspired to stu...

Ozempic Hype Forces Employer Calls on Obesity Coverage

From: Tradeoffs

Employers are facing a big dilemma: How do they pay for the new highly effective and popular obesity medications without breaking the bank? This we...