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The Exoplanet that Shouldn't Exist
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Astronomers have found a planet around a red giant star that should have been destroyed, yet it still exists, leaving astronomers to wonder why the...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
Proxima Centauri b: The Closest Exoplanet To Us
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Did you know that the closest star to us has a planet around it that may be habitable? In 2016 astronomers discovered a planet around the red-dwarf...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
JWST Measures Temperature of Exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Of all the exoplanets we’ve discovered so far, the most exciting when it comes to finding life elsewhere, reside in the system known as TRAPPIST-1.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 1
Exoplanets Are Everywhere
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Did you know that the discovery of other planets in orbit around other stars is a very recent one? Only 25 years ago, we had no idea there were an...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
The Promise of Kepler-22b
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Today, we are going to explore a remarkable world that lies beyond our solar system: Kepler-22b. This planet is one of the first confirmed exoplane...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2023
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
What is an Exoplanet?
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
There are many types of planets around other stars

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 1
Welcome to Exoplanet Radio
From: Tony Darnell
Series: Exoplanet Radio
Caption: Produced by Deep Astronomy
Exoplanet Radio takes you on a journey to the farthest and coolest planets in the galaxy. Every day we will share with you some of the most amazing...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 1
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 16
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Sandra Witelson, Credit: David Kattenburg
Powerful new antibiotics discovered using artificial intelligence. Sitting in a restaurant, staring at a piece of fish. Is it really that expensive...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2023
  • Length: 58:52
Black Pills
From: Distillations
Series: Innate
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If there is no such thing as biological race, why do we have race-specific drugs?

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 54:18
Episode 2: Into the Field
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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In this episode, go into the field with a team of scientists working to map the coastal seafloor in detail—and learn how their technologies could r...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 20:11
Episode 1: Mapping the Coastal Oceans
From: David Levin
Series: Deep Soundings: Stories from the Ocean Floor
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When it comes to mapping the seafloor, the hardest spots to see are the ones just off the coast. In this episode, find out why that's the case—and ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2023
  • Length: 14:52
Throwing Shade
From: Wendy Ring
Series: Cool Solutions
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Farmer/researcher team finds some crops do better and use less water when grown in solar arrays.

Bought by KVNF, WFHB, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Space Oddities: Episode 6-The Sue Me, Sue You Blues (With Apologies to George Harrison)
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: The Apollo 15 mission patch, Credit: NASA
Episode 6 of Space Oddities takes a look at several of the lawsuits filed against NASA and its astronauts. Most were trivial, some very serious inc...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 19, 2022
  • Length: 10:53
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 22
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The ninth and final chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 50:02
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 20
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The seventh chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 16, 2022
  • Length: 50:05
  • Purchases: 1
Space Oddities: Episode 1-Moon Dust In Your Lungs, Stars In Your Eyes
From: Joe Cuhaj
Series: Space Oddities: Forgotten Stories of Mankind's Exploration of Space
Caption: Terry Slezak accidentally came in contact with moon dust during the Apollo 11 quarantine period., Credit: NASA
Episode 1 of Space Oddities discusses NASA's plans to keep the Earth from being contaminated with lunar germs during the Apollo missions. Unfortuna...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2022
  • Length: 10:47
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 18
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The fifth chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:09
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 16
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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The third chapter of the series, Carbon Valley.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 49:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Big Ponder #44: Ball Bearings
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Ball bearings — these mechanisms are all around us, inside our wheels and motors. Hidden away, we rarely see them, and most people don’t even know ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 6
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two episodes about healing.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:58
  • Purchases: 2
Time to 1.5 | 6 | Extreme Home Makeover: Threshold Edition
From: Auricle Productions
Series: Threshold
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A lot of the changes needed to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees have to occur at a huge, international level. But nearly a fifth of carbon emi...

Bought by KSKQ


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:24:16
  • Purchases: 1
The Fight for Sheikh Jarrah + NATO
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Co-host Ray Suarez explores one of the underlying tensions that fuels the Israeli-Palestinian crisis by focusing on a single house in East Jerusale...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
AMOS 20.250: Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator, 12/15/2020
From: WFIU
Series: A Moment of Science
Caption: A Moment of Science
Bombardier Beetles: Saying "No" to a Hungry Predator

  • Added: Dec 01, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
Transparent Body Armor
From: Ears Adrift
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Ears Adrift's MC2 Sonja Wickard interviews scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory about the advancements in body armor technology.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2020
  • Length: 08:03
Analog Computing and the Automatic Totalisator
From: Sean Haas
Series: Advent of Computing
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A lot of the technology we associate with the modern day started on anachronistic machines. I'm not talking about mainframes, I'm talking older. To...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2020
  • Length: 48:31