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A trickle of data from the New Horizons spacecraft is building into a flood of new findings.
Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI, KENW, and WLPR
- Added: Mar 23, 2016
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 3
Scientists take a close look at a single celled creature with a complex eye.
- Added: Jul 20, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 2
A newly discovered brain structure in parrots hints at new mechanisms in brain evolution.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Jun 27, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
3-D talking maps use a variety of sensory modalities to help the visually impaired find their way around college campuses and other institutions.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
For most of human history, famine was only a single bad harvest away. Now, thanks to modern agriculture and fertilizers, we’ve almost eliminated hu...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Around the world millions of people suffer from diabetes. The personal and economic costs are enormous. What if we want to do more than treat insul...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Edmonton, Alberta isn’t the place you’d necessarily expect to be making breakthrough medical advances. But that’s just what has been happening in t...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 04:00
The causes of Type 2 diabetes are well known (obesity, ingesting too many carbohydrates, a sedentary lifestyle). But what about Type 1 diabetes, th...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
One promising new treatment for diabetes is transplanting healthy pancreatic cells into diabetics to restore their ability to digest sugars. What a...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
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
Imagine waiting to catch a train. You show up at the station and wait for the familiar clanking of wheels and squealing of brakes. This time, howev...
- Added: Jun 05, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Physicists are approaching closer and closer to one of the Holy Grails of modern science: creating self-sustaining fusion reactions on Earth, and u...
- Added: Jun 04, 2014
- Length: 02:00
Taking the listeners back into the early history of the universe, this introductory episode explains what fusion is, how it powers stars, and how i...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
- Purchases: 1
Diabetes is one of the first recorded diseases. When was it first treated by physicians and how prevalent was it?
- Added: May 15, 2014
- Length: 02:00
New guidelines could maximize transplant success by better matching donated kidneys with recipients.
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 01:00
An experimental treatment for bulimia nervosa may help restore connections within the brain that influence eating behavior in some patients.
- Added: Jan 02, 2014
- Length: 01:00
Captive-bred California Condors lack role models to show them how to survive in the wild. But wildlife biologists are there to help them navigate t...
- Added: Dec 09, 2013
- Length: 01:00
John D. Shearer is an artist from Indiana that won his battle over a rare form of brain cancer. His multi-media show entitled “I’m Too Young For Th...
- Added: May 31, 2012
- Length: 09:37
Things are going to the birds. Land that is. In the form of 1,500 land trusts in the U.S. that protect bird habitats.
- Added: Aug 19, 2009
- Length: 01:30
Using sustainable fuels aboard the Sloop Clearwater
- Added: May 07, 2009
- Length: 01:45
Looking back on an argument, it’s nice when it turns out they were wrong and you were right -- and it’s tempting to say “I told you so.”
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- Added: Nov 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Since the early 1990s, wildlife researchers with Operation Migration have been using ultralight aircraft to literally teach endangered birds a new ...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Bird watching can be pretty intense. Some birdwatchers travel deep into the Amazon to spy the exquisite Quetzal, or battle surf off the coast of th...
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- Added: Oct 29, 2008
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Cheetahs are fast, but time is catching up with them. Their numbers are dwindling due to a small gene pool that makes these graceful Big Cats vulne...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
Generations of kids did their Huckleberry Finn thing down by the Ashtabula, which means "river of many fish" in the Iroquois language. It once tee...
- Added: Apr 30, 2008
- Length: 01:32
