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Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
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This week on the show: New research from Germany suggests that letting people choose whether or not to vaccinate may ultimately improve the overal...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Get ready to roll up that sleeve again, because early data makes a clear case for a 3rd injection of the Pfizer-BioNTech va...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
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 ti...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
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This week on the show: Have you ever seen a video of someone floating, just like in space, except it looks like they're inside an airplane? Well,...

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  • Added: Jul 10, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on the show: Among those who haven't vaccinated (but also among some who have), there's a real fear that COVID-19 vaccines could have s...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Is it fair to say you've been outraged by some of the risky things you've seen people doing during this pandemic? And is it...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Will mutations change our vaccination strategy? Also, a controversial step in the fight against Alzheimer's, and how to tel...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
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This week on the show: If you don't vaccinate, you will get COVID-19 at some point. That's a fact. There's also the social argument. But a lot of ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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I do love wandering around little towns and Willcox is fun. And by the way, it was my friend and Willcox resident Steve Marlatt who reminded me of ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:55
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Hello! My name is Morgan Sexauer, and I am a senior (wooohooo) studying neuroscience with minors in philosophy and public policy.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:53
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Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a rising junior at the UofA studying Biomedical Engineering.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:12
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This week on the show: What is "black fungus," and how is it related to COVID-19? What are the arguments for — or against — vaccinating pregnant w...

  • Added: May 27, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
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This week on the show: Have an ear for birdsong? Neither do we. But with a couple clues (and a digital tool), we think you can solve our bird quiz...

  • Added: May 19, 2021
  • Length: 30:00
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Art should be able to be enjoyed by all. Thanks to 3-D and audio technology, the blind are able to experience art on their own terms.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
It's not about how much money you have, it's how you spend it. Scientists prove that experiences are more worth it than material things.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Step on a crack, break your mother's back! But what if the concrete never cracks? A microbiologist has invented living, self-patching concrete.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A DC mother helps her son with cancer get his appetite back through the power of nutritious foods and helps others along the way.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:33
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Spinal cord injuries are mostly considered irreversible. Scientists from Duke University are changing that by utilizing virtual reality technology.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:31
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
When Egypt comes to mind, most think about the desert. Thanks to German and Egyptian scientists the country could soon be covered in trees.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Leftover coffee grounds are saving lives as the main ingredient for an essential slow-burning fire source In sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
A start-up company in the Netherlands is looking for new solutions for renewable energy and finding them in plants.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Protecting your skin from the sun is a must. So is protecting coral reefs from toxic sunscreen.

  • Added: May 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

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  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9