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A computer game that familiarizes blind people with the layout of a virtual building makes it easier to navigate the real thing.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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Global warming may drive malaria northward in coming years.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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When worker bees and nurse bees switch roles, their brains get a genetic re-boot.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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Most viruses are actually harmless, and some can even help us stay healthy.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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A transparent soil substitute may lead to big strides in plant research.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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The insulation surrounding nerves develops more quickly in chimpanzees than in humans.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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A new technique makes it possible to scan a sick newborn's entire genetic code in 50 hours.

  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Scientists have discovered that mutations to a single gene in cats can turn stripes into blotches or even erase color patterns altogether.

  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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A new mouse model for Alzheimer's treatment gets striking results.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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Deforestation can lead to droughts hundreds of miles away.

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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In-car systems could alert drivers when it’s unsafe to go through a yellow light. And more evidence that light from computers, TVs and other source...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:00
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With the March announcement that Best Buy is closing 50 large stores around the country, the dominance of big box retail has been called into quest...

Bought by KBRP Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hywell Francis
Scholars, community organizers, activists and students gathered at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C., October 14-16 for “Appalachia and W...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2012
  • Length: 13:27
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For the past ten years, drug cartels in Mexico have been worshiping a sort of grim repress, a robed skeleton lady known as Santa Muerte, or Saint D...

Bought by KUOW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 2
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The morning announcements brought to you by Taco Bell.

Bought by Public Radio Remix, YouthCast, and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Nov 30, 2011
  • Length: 05:54
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: The Big Board offers a stock exchange... for beer., Credit: agencyQ
A new restaurant is trying to corner the market on neighborhood pubs, with beer prices that fluctuate in real time, based on customer demand.

Bought by Public Radio Remix and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The secret behind Gallaudet's circular classrooms lies in something called "visual attention.", Credit: Gallaudet University
Deaf people don't see better... they see differently.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Jun 28, 2011
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 3
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Independent bookstores struggle to survive -- and reinvent themselves -- in the age of Amazon and the Kindle.

Bought by KRUA and WAMC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
  • Purchases: 2
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Underground news from Santa Cruz, CA. Played on On What Grounds on KZSC, 88.1fm.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2011
  • Length: 43:59
Caption: Ahmed Altaie, a reserve soldier from Ann Arbor, Michigan, was kidnapped while visiting his wife in downtown Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: The Twitter Web site displayed on a laptop computer., Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
There was an uproar when Facebook fiddled with its privacy settings -- but really, people willingly give up their privacy all the time for perks li...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1
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From "Gridlock" (6/25/10): War News Radio talks to a marine sniper who has fought in the Iraq War.

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 06:57
Caption: Iraqi president Jalal Talabani speaking to the press., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jun 04, 2010
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 1
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Addiction to this teenage drug of choice could haunt you the rest of your life... assuming you get that long.

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  • Length: 04:44

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  • Length: 05:00