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We all crave power - to run laptops, charge cell phones, and play Angry Birds. But why don’t batteries last longer? Discover why their technolog...
Bought by KREV-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 3
Researchers have figured out how Staph bacteria transfer antibiotic resistance to one another.
- Added: Feb 02, 2013
- Length: 01:00
An oncologist and a computational biologist team up to treat cancer.
- Added: Feb 01, 2013
- Length: 24:38
If your friends call you an “early adopter," you’ll want to take note of MIT student Ben Gulak’s [Goo Lack] way-cool emission-free vehicle. It loo...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Remember playing with animal match books? By flipping the left- or right-hand pages you could match the picture of an animal’s head with its body. ...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Can a stock market tool save a species? Conservationists often struggle to project animal populations because they hinge on complicated, interdepen...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
When the Moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it’s the environment! At least it is at Pizza Fusion -- a chain of gourmet pizzerias. They’re ope...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Ever wanted to go organic in your garden, but didn’t know how? Well, students in East Palo Alto, California, are learning. In fact, they really di...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The Soap and Detergent Association is cleaning up its act. A recent conference that included officials from the Consumer Product Safety Commission,...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Montana ranchers will tell you non-native plants are tough to wrangle. And getting rid of them? Even tougher.
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Golf balls away, my boys, golf balls away…For sailors at sea, seems there’s nothing more relaxing than hitting a few golf balls off the deck of a s...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Raising endangered birds...on a volcano? It has benefits -- or, so says Alan Lieberman, head of the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center, perched on H...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Imagine a conventional, gas-powered car, with no carbon emissions. I mean, absolutely zero. In the cartoon world, the only way to do that was a ban...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The shape of our cities might be determining…the shape of our bodies.
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Home, home on the range only covers 20 percent of what it used to. That’s worldwide, according to a new study from the World Wildlife Fund. Human e...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Economist Nathan Fiala of the University of California at Irvine has a beef…about beef. Specifically, he's concerned about the impact producing bee...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
French poet Paul Valery wrote, “the trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” He might’ve been onto something. Accordin...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
The business of conservation -- preserving and protecting an ecosystem and all of the plants and animals in it -- is often characterized as interfe...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
There’s now a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, courtesy of climate change.
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Ever wonder what jet fuel is made of? So do scientists from four universities working on a $7.5 million project funded by the Air Force and an airc...
- Added: Jan 31, 2013
- Length: 01:30
Dr. John McDougall discussed the starch solution.
- Added: Jan 30, 2013
- Length: 25:36
- Purchases: 3
Radio Curious visits with Richard Jergensen to discuss the history future of railroad travel in Mendocino County.
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 29:01
From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 1
The Ocean Health Index defines a healthy ocean as one that sustainably delivers a range of benefits to people both now and in the future. World Oce...
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 06:14
90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life
- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 30:00
