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With enough pressure and heat, just about anything with enough carbon in it could become a diamond. And thankfully for us, when a scientist was ask...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Apr 08, 2022
- Length: 04:56
- Purchases: 1
In cases of emergency, lizards pop off their tails to get away. Evolution made it possible for that tail to stay on when tugged but not twisted. It...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 31, 2022
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
In an unexpected turn of events, two predators with very different hunting styles work cooperatively. During the summer months, badgers and coyotes...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Oct 11, 2021
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
In a pitched battle against voracious tomato fruit worms, (aka. corn earworms or cotton bollworm) tomato plants have one sneaky defense...a wasp. I...
Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 2
Like a scaly cheetah, galloping crocs were a terror both on land and in the water. Good thing they lived 100 million years ago.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KSFR
- Added: Aug 06, 2019
- Length: 04:15
- Purchases: 2
In 1804 Dr. Troxler discovered he could make pastel dots on paper disappear if he stared at them for long enough. Blink, and they would reappear. T...
- Added: Jun 05, 2019
- Length: 03:24
Need to string some wire through your house or clean a particle accelerator? You might need a science ferret.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 28, 2019
- Length: 03:09
- Purchases: 1
Can Flatworms remember how to find food after re-growing their heads? Science rolled up its sleeves and found out.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: May 14, 2019
- Length: 04:47
- Purchases: 1
The internet claims lobsters are immortal. Amy pulls a Dana Scully and debunks the heck out of that idea.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 26, 2019
- Length: 04:35
- Purchases: 1
Jumping out of an airplane without a parachute?! We explore a study that explains how sometimes, if you look at the data in just the right way, bac...
- Added: Mar 19, 2019
- Length: 02:40
