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What’s behind the sudden surge in earthquakes in the middle of the United States?
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
New microelectronic devices may get their energy through Wi-Fi signals.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 13, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Are we doing better today than on the first Earth Day 45 years ago?
- Added: Apr 15, 2015
- Length: 01:29
All about cars, planes, boats and trains.
- Added: Jan 19, 2015
- Length: 05:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Maria Lane, author of Geographies of Mars, relates what Percival Lowell observed on the red planet. This segment comes from BackStory's episode "Th...
Bought by Radio Newark and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 09:02
- Purchases: 2
Both younger and older people can readily learn new information, but older people have a harder time filtering out irrelevant and distracting infor...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
At the corner of Sanchez and Market, Jason Dorn pulls out an iPhone. He’s at one end point of the access area for San Francisco Free WiFi, a free w...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 05:30
Every system must get an immediate "GO!" response to the mission commander. (From 1990s)
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 15, 2014
- Length: :46
- Purchases: 1
Is public radio on the cusp of expansion or disruption? PRX CEO Jake Shapiro and Current.org's Mark Fuerst talked about listenership and public rad...
- Added: Oct 09, 2014
- Length: 10:41
Viruses spread from room to room much more quickly than you might think.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Sep 14, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Consumers may be surprised to learn that nanotechnology is being applied to foods and food related products without labeling, or a full safety revi...
- Added: Aug 29, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Improving computers by making them think more like humans.
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Insects will go to great lengths to pass their genes down to the next generations, including resorting to “power tools” to bore deep into unripe fr...
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Diabetes has been known to doctors for thousands of years. How was it treated before the discovery of insulin? What new ways are being developed to...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
The Earth gets almost all of its energy from the Sun. It grows plants and creates our climate. Even the fossil fuels we burn are the remains of pla...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Moving air feels colder than still air, but what does the thermometer say?
Bought by WXDU
- Added: Mar 11, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
Moderate exposure to UV sunlight may help control blood pressure.
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Crows form mobs to antagonize, intimidate and scare larger birds away.
- Added: Jan 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
A new GPS tracking system could warn wind power companies of oncoming birds in time to prevent deadly collisions.
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 01:00
If the food industry adds an ingredient to our food, it has to be pre-tested and determined safe, right? Not always. Join Food Sleuth Radio host an...
- Added: Oct 03, 2013
- Length: 28:00
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Walter Johnson about the rise of steamboats in the 19th Century, and how the cotton economy fueled an ever more ...
Bought by Radio Newark, KHNS, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 17, 2013
- Length: 08:58
- Purchases: 3
A look inside the issue of gender neutral bathrooms -- through online maps, art museums, and one person's struggle to find a decent place to pee.
- Added: Dec 30, 2012
- Length: 05:09
Digital technologies are changing how many Americans go to college - from online courses to robo-tutors. Can these innovations make college cheaper...
- Added: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 5
Come winter, your neck of the woods may be cold. But guess how frigid the James Webb Space Telescope will be when it launches in 2018? 400 degrees ...
Bought by PRX Remix, KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2012
- Length: 06:22
- Purchases: 4