
Science
Washington’s wildfire whipped up dangerous ‘weather’
Wildfires can create atmosphere changes around them — making raging infernos even more unpredictable and dangerous. Western Wash ...
8 years ago
Listen 6:53World weather libraries offer historic clues about climate
Whether it’s an especially hot or cold day – or mild or unmemorable one – the weather reports coming through the radio, ...
8 years ago
Listen 5:58Shining Star (but just barely)
The smallest star ever just found, called ELBM-J0555-57Ab, is just about the size of Saturn but 300 times as massive. That makes it just ...
Air Date: July 18, 2017
Listen 00:05:36Ivanka the brand; ‘Caesar’s Last Breath’
Guests: Matea Gold, Sam Kean SAM KEAN’s new book says we’re all inhaling history with each b ...
Air Date: July 18, 2017
Listen 00:49:003, 2, 1…Bake off! The mission to make bread in space
Crumbs may seem harmless here on Earth, but they can be a hazard in microgravity — they could get in an astronaut’s eye, or get i ...
8 years ago
Listen 5:20Inside the NASA program that makes science fiction technology real
Physicists and engineers in New Jersey are working on a power source that can take humans far out into our solar system. We have l ...
8 years ago
Listen 9:22Margate mayor: Aren’t we lucky?
A massive dune building project by the Army Corps of Engineers, one which Margate didn’t want to go ahead at all, is underway on Ma ...
8 years ago
On this date in July 1997, NASA placed the first rover on Mars. Sojourner was followed by Spirit and Opportunity, then Curiosity. It was ...
Air Date: July 10, 2017
Listen 00:04:54Sunoco’s PR firm aims to ‘neutralize opposition’ to Mariner East pipeline project
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This week, Dave Heller and Dr. Derrick Pitts discuss Earth’s elliptical orbit, and how it can still feel hot on Earth when we are a ...
Air Date: July 3, 2017
Science and the Fourth of July
Happy Birthday, America! From the very beginning, science has shaped this country. Many of the Founding Fathers — Madison, Jefferson, W ...
Air Date: June 30, 2017
Listen 48:33Mariner East 2 pipeline protesters face arrest, charges on their own land in Pa.
8 years ago