PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
Schools all across the country are designing energy-efficient dorms.
- Added: Mar 24, 2007
- Length: 01:32
Cougars are important predators in many ecosystems. But the magnificent cats are elusive by nature, making it tough for conservationists to track t...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
According to a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could boost the grow...
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
Who could guess that a shovel of dirt would reveal a long-lost treasure?
- Added: Feb 20, 2007
- Length: 01:30
This is a tale of two marsh birds that live on opposite sides of the United States. They belong to the same species, and prefer the same kind of ha...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Amphibians have existed for 300 million years. But in recent decades, 168 species are believed to have gone extinct, and almost 2,500 others are di...
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
To celebrate Valentine's Day, we're going to look at the mating habits of three very different creatures.
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 2
Harlequin frogs can't seem to beat the heat. The vibrantly colored amphibians have been dying in droves.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Scientists studied seven plots of rainforest in Borneo, Malaysia, India, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Thailand. They took a complete census of all the ...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
It's an invasive little mollusk that's costing the U.S. billions. Its name? The Zebra mussel.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
A predator is threatening the coral. It's a huge sea star known as the Crown-of-Thorns, which usually lives in a natural balance with the coral. My...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Dec 17, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
New Robots designed for teaching and learning
- Added: Dec 07, 2006
- Length: 07:06
There's an alternative way to treat wastewater: filtering it with live plants and even snails!
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
In the past 20 years, poachers have killed nearly one million elephants. Poachers have driven the giant pachyderms -- which are prized for their iv...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 3
About 20 years ago, New Jersey's filthy beaches were the butt of jokes. The medical wastes and other garbage that washed up onshore were forcing lo...
- Added: Dec 01, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 02:45
- Added: Nov 24, 2006
- Length: 02:03
- Added: Nov 15, 2006
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
Many kinds of plastic are forever, or nearly so.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 11, 2006
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 1
Slow doesn't describe the spread of the prolific New Zealand Mud Snail, which today threatens waterways throughout the western United States.
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Oct 11, 2006
- Length: 01:32
- Purchases: 1
An stroll through the gory depths of a UC Berkeley Museum preparation lab -- the place where animals are skinned and stuffed for posterity -- in th...
- Added: Aug 31, 2006
- Length: 11:44
Taking a look at technology's role in child obesity
- Added: Jul 24, 2006
- Length: 07:26
NASA's STEREO spacecraft are launching shortly. This series follows the spacecraft as they ready for launch later on this year.
- Added: Jun 18, 2006
- Length: 10:05
Psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison draws from personal experience to believe in her own unquiet mind.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 03:19
