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Fresh off the research presses in early 2022, a new study on how honey bees navigate the world while they fly. Turns out still water and mirrors ar...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jul 13, 2022
- Length: 05:05
- Purchases: 1
While baby Egyptian fruit bats start life getting carried around, once they get too heavy, their mothers leave them in a cave while they forage. It...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: May 13, 2022
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 1
The US military uses more than boats to protect our Naval bases. This episode brings a whole new meaning to "Navy seals".
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 09:30
- Purchases: 1
Those of you with a thick beard, that hair does more than make you look suave or rugged. Turns out, a beard might be protecting your face. There's ...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jan 10, 2022
- Length: 05:03
- Purchases: 1
If you're like Trace, the thought of math makes you want to run and hide; that anxiety, that tightness in your chest, the weird shooting pains (wai...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Jun 14, 2021
- Length: 04:54
- Purchases: 1
The scientific name of the ringtail is Bassariscus astutus. It’s in the Procyonidae, the same family as our local borderlands’ critters the raccoon...
- Added: Jun 01, 2021
- Length: 04:56
There's a strange connection between King penguins, one of their favorite islands, and Nitrous Oxide gas.
Bought by WRFA-LP and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 05:01
- Purchases: 2
Imagine if you could block out loud noises at a party by taking a really deep breath. That's how the female American Green Tree Frog manages to fil...
Bought by WRFA-LP
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
Arachnophobes BEWARE! Imagine a spider that uses special silk to lift something that's 50 times bigger than itself. There is a video! You must wat...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 04:59
What is that weird smell? It's called trimethylamine (TMA) and for most of us it stinks like rotten fish. For a small percentage of people it smell...
- Added: Mar 30, 2021
- Length: 05:04
What happens when you cross a intestinal invading fungus or bacteria with carbohydrates? You get very very drunk. Trace explores the weird world of...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2020
- Length: 04:13
- Purchases: 1
Trend setting science from 1975. We can't tell you anything else, it would spoil the surprise!
Bought by Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Nov 24, 2019
- Length: 05:11
- Purchases: 1
Learn a bit about the women and men of the IIP who monitor icebergs in the northern reaches of our Atlantic ocean.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 02:59
