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Oceans of Energy

From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast

Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...

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From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 4

Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.

Pay up! A team of social scientists in France and Spain develops an algorithm that helps save you money while redistributing wealth.

Life=Matter+Information: Paul Davies and the Demon in the Machine

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: The double helix of DNA is the main carrier of the information of life, but far from the only one, according to Paul Davies and other scientists., Credit: Public Domain

Physicist and author Paul Davies returns to talk about his new book that explores the defining role information plays in life on Earth and perhaps ...

Bought by KWMR, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WMUU-LP, KRZA and more

Giving Venus the Love (and Science) She Deserves

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: A radar view of Venus reveals the surface of the cloud-shrouded planet., Credit: Mattias Malmer/NASA/JPL

We have so much to learn about Venus, says JPL scientist Sue Smrekar. What we learn will help us understand our own world and Mars. Sue joins us ...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KDNK, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more

It’s Asteroid Week with NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Artist’s concept of asteroid passing Earth, Credit: ESA / P.Carril

The dinosaurs regret their lack of a space program. 200 million years later, humans are gearing up to defend themselves from a species-ending rock...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, WMUU-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KRZA and more

NASA Leaders on Getting Humans to Mars

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Mat Kaplan leads a discussion at the 2017 Humans To Mars Summit with NASA Associate Administrators (l to r) Thomas Zurbuchen, William Gerstenmaier and Stephen Jurczyk, Credit: Christina Korp @Buzzs_xtina

The human journey to the Red Planet is long and hard, but Mat’s conversation with three NASA Associate Administrators at the Humans to Mars Summit ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KWMR, WTJU, KRZA, WMUU-LP and more

2014: The Year in Space

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Orion spacecraft is recovered by the USS Anchorage, Credit: NASA

Our annual review of the greatest events and accomplishments over the last year features analysis and commentary by Bill Nye the Science Guy, Emily...

Bought by KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KMUD, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KBRP Community Radio

Cassini is Safe! Mission Update From Project Scientist Linda Spilker

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Mighty Saturn and its rings, imaged by the Cassini spacecraft., Credit: JPL/NASA

Project scientist Linda Spilker returns with a regular update on Saturn, its moons and rings not long after learning that the mission is funded thr...

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

Jay Barbree on "Neil Armstrong: A Life of Flight"

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

In his 55 years as NBC’s space correspondent, Jay Barbree has won the respect and friendship of many astronauts. Neil Armstrong stands above them a...

Bought by KVSC and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Amputees

From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Generational discussion on amputee issues over the ages

Microbes in Orbit--Cheryl Nickerson's Pioneering Biomedical Research

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

Caption: Cheryl Nickerson in her ASU lab, Credit: NASA

You may have heard that the sometimes deadly Salmonella bacterium becomes stronger in microgravity. That was just one of the promising results of e...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago

Emily Lakdawalla at the LPSC While Alan Stern Stirs Up the Solar System

From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio

A busy show, as Emily shares highlights from last week’s Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, and Alan Stern provides updates on the Rosetta com...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WESM 91.3 FM, and WOUB

Getting Humans to Mars Without Breaking the Bank

From: Mat Kaplan

NASA scientist Harley Thronson tells us about a new initiative that is figuring out how we will get men and women to the red planet at a reasonable...

Bought by WOUB