PRX - Pieces for Topic: Science
Can't find it?
Try Advanced Search
If you can't stand the heat…hang in there? That's what some species are doing in response to climate change.
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Is it ‘hip,’ or ‘cool,’ to be environmentally sustainable? That's a question that some of the biggest companies are asking about the world's most p...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Which is better? A picture perfect golf course, or a wild and wooly prairie? Well, when it comes to ecosystem health, the more native plants -- the...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes, creating a preserve can help endangered species fast, like South Africa’s Cape penguins. Until recently, this endangered bird, and the o...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
The new frontier isn’t to the north, south, east, or west. It’s up, as in skyscrapers. And, the tallest? The Burj-Khalifa tower in Dubai. From a di...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
“Cradle-to-Cradle” is the newest buzz in green manufacturing circles. It’s the next evolution of the idea of “Cradle-to-Grave, ” where recycled mat...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Alternative fuels are more environmentally friendly than petroleum products, right? Actually, that’s not always the case.
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Alien mussels are muscling their way into our waterways. And like unwelcome guests, once the move in, they’re almost impossible to move out!
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Seems there are some strange critters living in water. Take for example the anglerfish with its glow-in-the-dark lantern on its forehead. But as st...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Here’s a two-fer: A renewable fuel source that also reduces carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists in Denmark are looking at a species of se...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Apr 27, 2013
- Length: 01:30
- Purchases: 1
Chemistry Professor Jonathan Raff talks about the air pollutants emitted by clothes dryers and other household sources.
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 08:04
In today’s EcoReport feature, IU Chemistry Professor Jonathan Raff talks about the air pollutants emitted by clothes dryers and other household sou...
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 29:04
The Books were known for making use of sounds and audio samples that aren’t typically heard in music. The Books disbanded in 2012, but Nick Zammuto...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 29:19
- Purchases: 1
A listener asks why some trees live for thousands of years.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 01:00
Mary Roach discussed her adventures through the alimentary canal.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 19:44
90 second modules that celebrate the natural world and bring the wonder of nature into daily life
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 34:30
In the late 19th century, insane asylums were built across the country in response to a national outcry over the treatment of the mentally ill. Mor...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 27:34
- Purchases: 2
Playing soundwaves synchronized with a person's own deep sleep rhythms may improve short-term memory.
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 02:00
We revisit our conversation with biological anthropologist James Holland Jones, who explains how diseases typically spread from animal to human pop...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 27:52
We revisit one of our first interviews with environmental historian Richard White. He addresses the (mis)perceptions of the natural world, the ambi...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 23:59
Climate scientist Ken Caldeira begins with a discussion of ocean acidification, a term he helped coin. He follows with the story of how his name b...
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 28:17
In this segment, tribal wildlife biologist Dr. Seth Moore stops by WTIP North Shore Community Radio on his way to address the National Adaptation F...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 23, 2013
- Length: 07:15
- Purchases: 2
A non-narrated profile of sound artist Susan Alexjander, who uses vibrational frequencies from the natural world – from DNA to planetary spins – to...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 08:40
Spring so far this year has been elusive to say the least. Jay Andersen, with WTIP North Shore Community Radio, talks with naturalist Chel Anderson...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE and KSRQ
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 07:40
- Purchases: 2
