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My name is Jasmine Lock and I am studying neuroscience and cognitive science at the University of Arizona. I work in Dr. Zelieann Craig’s lab which...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 04:03
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This week on the show: Hands and feet - You know what's better than five fingers? Six. We look at this strange new research and talk to a "po...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on sleep hygiene. G...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2019
  • Length: 48:11
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With the Hearts in the Ice expedition set to begin one month from now, World Ocean Radio is revisiting a special episode dedicated to the upcoming ...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 04:28
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Hospital administrator Galen Laserson recounts the time she got an unexpected call in the middle of the night, which prompted her to learn all abou...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2019
  • Length: 30:10
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on the importance o...

  • Added: May 01, 2019
  • Length: 53:42
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Purpose-driven and consciously prepared brain food from the beaches of Malibu, California. Join us on this week’s show focusing on resilience in ab...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2019
  • Length: 47:12
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Meet C. explodens; worker ants who rupture their own abdomens--filled with toxic goo--to protect the colony from predators.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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This episode comes to you direct from New York City where Maeve lives and Mary was attending Climate Week. Governments, diplomates, business leader...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 40:52
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This episode serves up an all-you-can-eat investigation into food and its connection to climate. We meet Mothers of Invention in India, Nigeria and...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 36:41
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Mary and Maeve are talking about money, money. Fighting climate change might be a moral necessity but women are learning to hit vested interests ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2019
  • Length: 37:01
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This Valentine’s Day we could have just brought you some sappy love stories from science’s past. But instead we offer you three tales of lust, lone...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 01:17:06
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It's there and it's square. And now we know why.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:47
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Girls get slightly higher grades in science and math worldwide than boys, but fewer enter STEM professions.

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WMMT, WTIP, KENW, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 06, 2018
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A Moment of Science
Dolphins May Help Us Understand Menopause

  • Added: Oct 02, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Wonder Women, Credit: Seth Shostak
Science is supposed to be merit-based and objective. And yet the data say otherwise. A new study reveals widespread harassment of women of color i...

Bought by WMUU-LP, High Plains Public Radio, WMUU-LP, KICI Iowa City, KUNM and more


  • Added: Oct 01, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 23
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Ten years ago a dream was born. That was when Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a division of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), was founded by...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2018
  • Length: 42:02
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In this edition of The Onco’Zine Brief, recorded during the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), held in Chicago, Il...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 43:00
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Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. It’s the leading cause of disability worldwide.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:05
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Women are about twice as likely to suffer from depression as men. Poor and minority women are less likely to get help than affluent or white women.

  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 09:02
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In this edition of The Onco’Zine Brief Peter Hofland and Sonia Portillo are talking with Elizabeth M. Jaffee, MD, the 2018 - 2019 president of the ...

  • Added: May 19, 2018
  • Length: 35:53
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The Netherlands-born writer Manon Rinsma is the author of a new book called “13 Diamonds – Life before death from a Child’s Perspective.” In her ...

  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 35:27
Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / University at Buffalo engineering professor Liesl Folks leads the NAVIGATE Project at UB, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / University at Buffalo engineering professor Liesl Folks leads the NAVIGATE Project at UB
The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and math – have traditionally been dominated by men. And that can make it tough for women to bre...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WSKG, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 23, 2018
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 5
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How is human milk different in the Himalayan highlands than in the United States, and what can these differences reveal about what moms and babies ...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 16:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Treated for her first eating disorder at 11, Rebecca Lester now studies eating disorders as an anthropologist and psychotherapist.

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 15:10
  • Purchases: 1