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The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter contains an embryonic planet in arrested development.

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:00
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NASA scientists are testing a harpoon that could bring back samples from comets.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2012
  • Length: 00:01:00
Caption: Skeptic Check: Energy Vortex, Credit: Seth Shostak
The science behind “mysterious energy,” from magnetic poles to haunted houses, and just what the heck is an “energy vortex” anyway?

Bought by KREV-LP and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jan 23, 2012
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Think you know Gustav Holst's "The Planets"? Think again.

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 00:08:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Cosmos: It's Big, It's Weird, Credit: Seth Shostak
It’s all about you. And you, and you, and you and you … that is, if we live in parallel universes. Physicist Brian Greene’s case for multiverses.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUNM, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Sensor Sensibility, Credit: Seth Shostak
“Ubiquitous sensing” aims to blanket the world in tiny sensors, the out-of-this world detection system that discovered a possibly Earth-like planet...

Bought by KREV-LP


  • Added: Dec 19, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A powerful telescope has detected the fastest rotating star yet.

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:00
Caption: The Field Trip Podcast logo, Credit: Mike Smith, Field Trip Podcast
The Field Trip is a free podcast that takes science out of the lab and into the world. This week's show is about Mars, and features an interview wi...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:24:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: NASA or What?, Credit: Seth Shostak
NASA in motion: the GRAIL mission takes us back to the moon, and – can you dig it? The rover Curiosity can. It’ll hunt for evidence of Martian lif...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:01
Caption: Bug Off!, Credit: Seth Shostak
Humans have been battling viruses and bacteria since the beginning of time; stories from the frontier of epidemiology.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:00
Caption: Whither the Weather?, Credit: Seth Shostak
We all talk about the weather, and now scientists are doing something about it: discover how smart technology - with an eye on the sky – is taking ...

Bought by WRIR and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 12, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Seth's Tool Shed, Credit: Seth Shostak
A scheme for finding life on Mars, adopting to climate change, and a new moon of Pluto.

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Sep 05, 2011
  • Length: 00:54:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Prof. Brian Cox discussed the wonders of the universe.

Bought by WRNC-LP and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 27, 2011
  • Length: 00:27:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alan Stern, Credit: NASA
Planetary scientist Alan Stern thinks that when astronomers decide what is or isn't a planet, the criteria should be simple.

Bought by KRUA, KOSU, Kansas Public Radio, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Apr 22, 2011
  • Length: 00:01:27
  • Purchases: 4

  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 00:02:02
  • Purchases: 2
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Stacy Keach stars as of one of the great virtuosos of science.

Bought by KREV-LP, WCPN, KUT-HD, KXOT Public Radio, KRCB and more


  • Added: Sep 27, 2010
  • Length: 01:57:54
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Michael Byers discussed the hunt for Planet X.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Aug 25, 2010
  • Length: 00:27:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
James Lu Dunbar discussed the Universe Verse.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 00:25:45
  • Purchases: 1
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in which people party like it's 1999 back in 1910. A postcard from the roof of the Waldorf-Astoria 90 years ago. The place to be as Halley's Comet...

Bought by KUT and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 17, 2010
  • Length: 00:04:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
James Kasting discussed how to find a habitable planet.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: May 21, 2010
  • Length: 00:25:03
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Daniel Hudon discussed cosmology for the total novice.

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Feb 28, 2010
  • Length: 00:25:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Ken Croswell discussed the life of stars.

  • Added: Oct 28, 2009
  • Length: 00:25:10