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This Week in Water for May 21, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Footprints You Leave on the Beach Contain Your DNA. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, RadioFreePalmer, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 21, 2023
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 6
Inspiring the next generation through space education
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
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In this week's episode of Planetary Radio, we're honoring the educators who inspire young, curious minds to explore the marvels of the Cosmos.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WNED Buffalo, KIYU-FM, KVSC, WJCU and more


  • Added: May 17, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
The case for saving VERITAS
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The VERITAS mission would map Venus with radar and infrared spectroscopy., Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech
Darby Dyar, Deputy Principal Investigator for NASA's VERITAS mission to Venus, joins Planetary Radio to share the human story behind the spacecraft...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: May 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for May 7, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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When a Dustup Is a Good Thing. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, WYAP and more


  • Added: May 07, 2023
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 7
Adventures at the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: The Planetary Society, a co-sponsor of the biennial Planetary Defense Conference, hosted a screening of the movie "Planet Hunters" at the 2023 conference in Vienna, Austria. This image shows the crowd at the event, which senior communications advisor Mat , Credit: Alex Karl
Planetary Radio creator Mat Kaplan shares a look behind the scenes at the 2023 Planetary Defense Conference in Vienna, Austria.

Bought by KVSC, KIYU-FM, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KWMR, WJCU and more


  • Added: May 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for April 30, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Climate Change Means More Pirates. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Apr 30, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
Juice mission liftoff: A new era of icy moon exploration begins
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: An image of Ganymede obtained by the JunoCam imager during Juno’s June 7, 2021, flyby of Jupiter's icy moon., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS
Join us as we celebrate the successful launch of the European Space Agency's Juice mission with project scientist Olivier Witasse.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KVSC, KIYU-FM, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for April 23, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How “Crustivoltaics” Could Restore Arid Lands. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, KMXT and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2023
  • Length: 06:07
  • Purchases: 7
The Drugs Changing How We Treat Obesity
From: Tradeoffs
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A new class of drugs can help people lose up to one-fifth of their body weight and manage serious health conditions associated with obesity. But th...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 16:32
Finless Foods: A Different Kettle of Fish
From: Alex Wise
Series: Sea Change Radio
Caption: Shannon Cosentino-Roush
Long time Sea Change Radio listeners know a thing or two about the challenges of being both a seafood lover and an environmentalist. It’s hard to k...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Under Alien Skies with Phil Plait
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Universe by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, was released on April 18, 2023. The book takes the reader on an imaginary journey to 10 spectacular locations in space and shares the strange and beautiful experienc, Credit: W. W. Norton & Company
Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, joins Planetary Radio to discuss his new book, “Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer’s Guide to the Galaxy.”

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KWMR, WJCU, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
Could honeybees be our new citizen scientists?
From: Henrietta McFarlane
Caption: Honeybees to be collected by New York City Beekeepers on the Upper West Side , Credit: Henrietta McFarlane
We don’t know nearly enough about our city’s microbiome. That’s the invisible microorganisms which live with, including virus’ and bacteria that ca...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 04:33
This Week in Water for April 16, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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How Penguins Dump on Climate Change. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 16, 2023
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 7
Hospice Care’s Midlife Crisis
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Bethany Snider encouraged her nonprofit hospice agency to participate in a federal experiment to revamp Medicare's 40-year-old hospice policy, but she worries about its potential unintended consequences., Credit: Jon Cherry for Tradeoffs.
About half of people on Medicare use hospice care before they die, but as the popular benefit turns 40 this year, it is struggling with waste, acce...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 20:42
Yuri’s Night: For all SpaceKind
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Tawny Newsome interviews astronaut Jessica Watkins and SpaceX Inspiration4 pilot Sian Proctor at the 2023 LA Yuri's Night celebration at the California Science Center, discussing their unique journeys to space and their meaning for the future of explorati, Credit: David Pinsky
Join us as we delve into the heart of LA's 2023 Yuri's Night party, a celebration commemorating Yuri Gagarin's pioneering 1961 voyage into space.

Bought by KVSC, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KWMR, KRZA and more


  • Added: Apr 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 13
This Week in Water for April 9, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A New Twist in the Climate Change Story. That and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 6
Two Years of Hope: Celebrating the Emirates Mars Mission
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: Artist's concept of the Emirates Mars Mission Hope probe., Credit: UAE Space Agency
Join us as we celebrate the accomplishments of a truly inspiring space mission - the United Arab Emirates' Hope probe, which has spent two amazing ...

Bought by KVSC, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, WHFR, KIYU-FM, WJCU and more


  • Added: Apr 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 14
Cracking the Havana Syndrome with Dr. Beatrice Golomb
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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The symptoms suffered by diplomats and White House staff came from the same kind of radiation emitted by cell phones and cell towers.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WNED Buffalo, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:10
  • Purchases: 3
This Week in Water for April 2, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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A Grueling Sporting Event Is Doing Science. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KMXT, KGNU Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2023
  • Length: 05:56
  • Purchases: 7
Volcanic Venus? New insights from vintage data
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This 3D view of Maat Mons, the tallest volcano on Venus, was created using data from NASA's Magellan spacecraft. The vertical scale in this perspective has been exaggerated 10 times. Maat Mons, appearing at the center, rises almost 5 kilometers (3 miles) , Credit: NASA/JPL
Robbie Herrick and Scott Hensley, the minds behind a new paper on recent potential volcanic activity on Venus, join Planetary Radio to discuss thei...

Bought by KVSC, Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 12
This Week in Water for March 26, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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Everything Everywhere All at Once. That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KMXT, KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KICI Iowa City, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2023
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 6
When Home Becomes a Hospital
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Gabriel Kibuyu (right) receives hospital-at-home care from UMass Memorial Medical Center nurse Danae Stand (center) and Dr. Constantinos Michaelidis (left on tablet) on March 6, 2023., Credit: Photo by Lisa Abitbol for Tradeoffs.
The pandemic pushed Medicare to start paying for “hospital-at-home” care for the first time, launching the largest test ever of home-based hospital...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 24:21
Getting psyched for Psyche
From: Mat Kaplan
Series: Planetary Radio
Caption: This is an artist's conception of Psyche, a metallic asteroid., Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Lindy Elkins-Tanton, the principal investigator for NASA’s Psyche mission to explore a metallic asteroid, joins Planetary Radio to share the missio...

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KIYU-FM, KCNP, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 8
This Week in Water for March 19, 2023
From: H2O Radio
Series: This Week in Water
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The Looming Threat of “Phosphogeddon.” That story and more on H2O Radio’s weekly news report about water.

Bought by KRZA, KGNU Community Radio, KMXT, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 06:08
  • Purchases: 6
738-Tiny Visitor(526)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Asteroid Near Earth, Credit: ESA
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.

Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KGLP, Raven Radio, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Mar 19, 2023
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10

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