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Amid climate change, tiny bug causes big problems along Great Lakes
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: White fuzz on branches harbors the destructive hemlock woolly adelgid., Credit: Caitlin Whyte
The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid is almost impossible to see with the naked eye. But the insect is causing a lot of damage to hemlock trees and their sur...

Bought by WBFO, WRVO Public Media, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WOUB, WCPN and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2017
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 8
Along Lake Ontario, high waters -- and damage -- persist
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A lawn that once stretched to the iron gate has ben eroded by high waters., Credit: Caitlin Whyte
As winter nears, residents along Lake Ontario are shoring up walls of sandbags for protection against high waves. Caitlin Whyte of WXXI reports for...

Bought by WBFO, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WRVO Public Media, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 9
413-Fission Rocket
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To cut the mission time to Mars, the risks, and the mass of supplies required for such a prolonged space mission NASA is looking at alternative mea...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Move over Uber -- the Army's testing self-driving vehicles
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: Decal on truck, Credit: Kevin Lavery, WKAR
The day of the driverless car is gaining ground...FAST. Autonomous vehicles have caught the attention of Tesla, Uber and Google. Now, add the U.S. ...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WXXI Rochester, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCMU Michigan, WMUK and more


  • Added: Nov 10, 2017
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 7
408-Earth's Pet Rock
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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On it's gravitational leash, Earth's pet space rock, 2016 HO3, accompanies us at a distance of between 38 and 100 times the Moon's distance from Ea...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
407-Plant Companionship
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The plants that Mars explorers take with them will provide a source of fresh fruits and vegetables , fresh air to breathe, and perhaps a psychologi...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, and KKRN


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
406-2 Close Ones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In less than 24 hours, while observing with the Catalina Sky Survey's 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona , I discovered two 25 foot diameter ...

Bought by KENW, KKRN, WTIP, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana and more


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
404-Jess's Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Large undiscovered Earth approaching asteroids are still out there.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
403-Double Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A strange object consisting of two mile diameter asteroids surrounded by a gas cloud is orbiting our Sun.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KSFR, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
402-Above Scotland
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The CubeSat industry is making relatively low cost exploration of space possible and is creating heretofore undreamed of opportunities for the hum...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, WTIP and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
401-Night Vision
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Experience the wonders of the Universe first hand using your night vision.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
Planes, drone monitor harmful algae in Lake Erie
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: A photo captured by Ansari 9-24, Credit: Dr. Rafat Ansari
Algae blooms continue to color western Lake Erie a deep green. Now researchers and scientists want to know more about toxins produced by the algae....

Bought by KPIK-LP, WBFO, WOSU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 03:38
  • Purchases: 9
400-Roving Venus
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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To survive on Venus where the temperature is 864F and the surface air pressure is 90 times that of Earth, NASA and JPL engineers are exploring the ...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
399-Moons of Florence
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The largest asteroid to come near the Earth in 100 years has two moons.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KKRN, and KUPR low power FM


  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
398-Mars Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A visitor from Mars lands near Tata, Morocco on July 11, 2011. Pieces of it are worth 10 times their weight in Gold.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
397-Spotting Meteors
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of t...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
396-Jupiter
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Jupiter has been observed by humans through out history, shaped our solar system, and made it possible for Earth to form.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
395-House Sized Space Rocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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There are approximately 3.2 million Earth approaching asteroids similar in size to the Chelyabinsk impactor which injured nearly 1,500 people and d...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
394-Tiny Beasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A partnership with yeast and algae will enable spacefaring humans to use their waste products to produce food and plastics during long duration spa...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, WLPR , KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
393-Newest Moon
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The moon cycle from new moon through full moon and back to new moon again was used by many nations to regulate their activities and forms the basis...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KKRN and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Who uses spider silk? The Army and Stella McCartney, for starters
From: Great Lakes Today
Caption: These silk threads are produced by silkworms but based on the protein spiders use to spin a web. , Credit: Kraig Biocraft Laboratories
The silky strands made by spiders are prized for their strength and suppleness. Now, scientists in the Great Lakes region are using technology to r...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Michigan Radio, North Country Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 15, 2017
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 8
392-Dragon Delivers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The SpaceX 11 Dragon mission is the first time an American spacecraft has visited the space station since the NASA Space Shuttle Program ended in A...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
391-Finding Spacerocks
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Finding a meteorite that has traveled billions of miles through space to reach it's present location is exciting. It might even be worth real money.

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KRWG, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
390-One in 100,000
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Additional observations over the years have eliminated the possibility that Apophis will strike the Earth as it streaks by closer than the communic...

Bought by KENW, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KSFR, KRWG, WLPR and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
389-Tiny Spacecraft
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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About the size of a saltine cracker and having a mass of less than 2 dimes, the single-board Sprite spacecraft has all the essentials; solar panels...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, WLPR , KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10