PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

253 results


Episode 23: Into the Ice
From: Criminal
Series: This is Love
Piece image
The B-15 iceberg in Antarctica was the largest iceberg in recorded history. Explorer Jill Heinerth wanted to see what it looked like from the insid...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Jun 26, 2020
  • Length: 33:06
  • Purchases: 1
Does speeding waste gas?
From: Possibly
Piece image
The answer lies in drag: every time you double the speed you travel in a car, the energy you use quadruples. That’s because you’re fighting against...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 04:02
  • Purchases: 2
Should you use your car's AC or roll down the windows?
From: Possibly
Piece image
It depends. When you’re driving slowly around town, it’s better to keep your windows down. But on the highway, it’s better to turn on the AC.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 24, 2020
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
What Creates More Greenhouse Emissions - Flying Or Driving?
From: Possibly
Piece image
In general, if you're traveling alone, driving creates two times the emissions of flying in a plane. Driving with just two people in the car makes ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2020
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 1
Is It Possible To Convert Your Gas Car Into An Electric Car?
From: Possibly
Piece image
Technically yes. There are some car hobbyists who have done this, but there's no streamlined approach to converting your car. The process would be ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 29, 2020
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 1
Blue Dot: America Returns to Space
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Doug Hurley (foreground) and Bob Behnken aboard Dragon Demo 2, Credit: SpaceX via NASA
After spending the last two years looking back at the Apollo Program, Dave looks ahead to the Commercial Crew flight program and Project Artemis. W...

Bought by KSPB Pebble Beach


  • Added: May 28, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
463: Traveling By Book / 464: Pick Your Poison, 3/14/2020
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Piece image
HOUR ONE: "Traveling By Book" - Great books take us to great places. Travel the world with your favorite authors as we celebrate Season Two of our ...

  • Added: Mar 13, 2020
  • Length: 01:58:58
439: Wintering In The Wild / 440: Get Happy, 12/21/2019
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Piece image
HOUR ONE: "Wintering In The Wild" - Think it's cold now? Bundle up for a hour with walruses and reindeer shamans. HOUR TWO: "Get Happy" - Can sci...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Blue Dot: Lassen Volcanic National Park and the UC Natural Reserve System
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Caption: Lassen Peak
Lassen Volcanic National Park is the latest addition to the University of California Natural Reserve System. The 41 units of the UCNRS represent vi...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Gettin' Funky
From: Heritage Radio Network
Series: Meat + Three
Piece image
When the leaves start to fall and temperatures begin to drop, one of our favorite things to do is celebrate the funk in food. This week, we bring y...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 15:48
550-Lunar Telescopes
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
From the naked eye to the Hubble Space telescope each advance has enabled new astronomical discoveries. We have thus begun to understand our place...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
A Cinematic Tour de Force of the Solar System on NOVA
From: North State Public Radio
Series: Blue Dot
Piece image
Dave talks to Gideon Bradshaw and Andrew Cohen, the BBC filmmakers behind the new NOVA series The Planets on PBS. Part of the "Summer of Space" on ...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
Can the World’s Natural and Cultural Wonders Survive Climate Change?
From: This Is Science With Jess Phoenix
Series: Got Science?
Piece image
Adam Markham takes us on a tour of World Heritage Sites threatened by a warming world.

Bought by WCNY, WCNY, and KRZA


  • Added: May 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Thoughts on Antarctica
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: Ernest Shakelton British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, Credit: Public Domain Review
Antarctica, terra nullius--nobody's land, has long been a place apart, once explored only by intrepid and resourceful individuals willing to risk f...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 05:16
Interstellar Visitations
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
Piece image
If Oumuamua is a "scout," then for what cosmic army? And other dealings with strange things in the skies.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jan 21, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spectrum 10/16/2018
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Spectrum: World of Science & Technology ~ from DW
Piece image
This week on the show: Tapping into the science of Oktoberfest!!! Just why DO so many people go to Oktoberfest? And how does nearly 8 million l...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2018
  • Length: 30:00
492-Not Human
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
From the time 3 million years ago that our ancestor Lucy walked in what is now Ethiopia until the widespread use of electric lighting began in the ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KUPR low power FM, KSFR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
490-Mini Moons
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
There are likely to be hundreds smaller than softball sized and perhaps several dozen football to beachball sized, natural Earth mini moons, which ...

Bought by KGLP, KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
489-Martian Water
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Exciting new research indicates that there could be a lake of liquid water beneath the south Martian polar cap. Further research will be required t...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WLPR , KUPR low power FM, WTIP and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
488-20 Years
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
It has been 20 years since the world woke up to the news that a half mile diameter asteroid, 1997 XF11, discovered by Space Watch on Kitt Peak, had...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KRWG, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
487-Touching The Sun
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Imagine a spacecraft traveling at a speed that would take it from New York to Tokyo in less than a minute, a mere 4 million miles from the surface ...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
486-Martian Storms
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
In a few weeks ,as Earth and Mars moved closer together, a dust storm engulfed most of the red planet making it impossible to see its surface featu...

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, and WLPR


  • Added: Aug 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
485-Last One
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A huge Earth approaching asteroid is discovered right before the 2018 monsoon rains settled into the American Southwest. This weather imposed bre...

Bought by KENW, WLPR , KRZA, WTIP, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Aug 09, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
287: Roadtrippin' / 288: Artificial Creativity, 7/7/2018
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Piece image
HOUR ONE: "Roadtrippin'"' - What makes a road trip something special? It's not the destination. HOUR 2: "Artificial Creativity" - Scientists are ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
470-Martian Asteroid Hunters
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The life of an asteroid hunter on Mars will be interesting and exciting. The double planet, our Earth and Moon, in the Martian night sky will be a...

Bought by KENW, KRWG, WTIP, KKRN, KSFR and more


  • Added: Jun 16, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7