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The island of Surtsey is a compelling example of the way that animals distribute nutrients around the globe through their poop.
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Nov 16, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 1
How do we create peace? What can we learn from indigenous societies who have addressed this profound question over thousands of years? From North A...
- Added: Nov 14, 2023
- Length: 28:30
When gathering accurate descriptions of the world is crucial to your work, how do you navigate a reality full of hallucinations?
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and WYAP
- Added: Nov 09, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
Tapping Earth’s largest source of clean energy -- its oceans. Ocean waves, tides and heat. A massive resource. Then, there’s salt gradient energy. ...
- Added: Oct 31, 2023
- Length: 53:57
Carbon offsets are often touted as a solution to humanity’s bad habit of emitting an awful lot of CO2. But how many of us actually know what things...
Bought by KMUN
- Added: Oct 28, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Argentina, Estonia, Thailand. A ballet career could land you on just about any world stage. International success catapulted Steven Melendez to all...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Oct 27, 2023
- Length: 52:54
- Purchases: 1
It is the fourth of seven planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is the most studied planetary system outside our own. Astronomers are intensely ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2023
- Length: 04:04
There’s no question that humanity is making fast progress in understanding, cataloging and classifying planets around other stars. So far we’ve fo...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:04
Human beings have discovered over five thousand five hundred exoplanets. Over 80 percent of them have orbits shorter than 50 days which would place...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:37
Astronomers have recently concluded an observation study of the closest exoplanet to Earth, Proxima Centauri b and found that the planet does not t...
- Added: Oct 19, 2023
- Length: 04:48
Katrina Madsen, Community Manager at Ancestry.com for Find a Grave. We learn from Katrina Madsen about the history of Find a Grave, some of the rec...
- Added: Oct 11, 2023
- Length: 39:29
Have you ever thought about what you'd do to save the planet if you were a billionaire? Well, this week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with billiona...
- Added: Sep 19, 2023
- Length: 29:00
In her late 20s, Erica Buist had never been invited or expected to be anywhere near a deceased human. Death had been cloistered away from her, or s...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 07, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 2
One of the most exciting exoplanetary systems discovered so far, and one we’ve talked about many times on Exoplanet Radio, is TRAPPIST-1, a system ...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 05:00
Today, we are going to visit TrES-2b, a planet that is so dark that it reflects less than one percent of the sunlight falling on it. How can a plan...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Most of the 5000 exoplanets discovered so far have been found using methods that don’t actually see the planet at all. Brightness dimmings and sta...
- Added: Aug 31, 2023
- Length: 03:52
It's a massive lake with a murky reputation. It's survived a carp invasion, decades of dumped raw sewage, and the draining of surrounding wetlands....
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WYAP
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 52:53
- Purchases: 3
We live in a golden age of exoplanet discovery. Not only are we searching for and finding new worlds around other stars all the time, but as our t...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:01
A team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c, which is one of seven rocky planets orbiting an ultr...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Astronomers estimate that there are more free roaming planets in our galaxy than there are planets in orbit around stars.
In fact, rogue exoplanet...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
One of the big questions we are trying to answer in exoplanet astronomy is: Just how common are habitable planets? We already know that exoplanets...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Kelt-9b is a gas giant planet that orbits a star 670 light-years from Earth. It is so close to its star that its dayside temperature is 7,800 degre...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
Whenever humans start cataloging and classifying things, whether it be plants, animals, stars or exoplanets, we naturally become interested in the...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:00
The launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, marked the beginning of a new era in exoplanet science. Never before had...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
Tucked inside a quiet solar system, in the area of sky outlined by the constellation Aquarius, orbits a planet named TRAPPIST-1d, the third of seve...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 04:07
