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We celebrate two giant birth anniversaries this week: Wednesday is the 453rd anniversary of Galileo and Sunday is the 544th anniversary o ...
Air Date: February 13, 2017
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Artificial pancreas could mean “freedom” for diabetic patients
For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care. About one million Americans have Type 1 d ...
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Synchronized defense: How animals move as one to avoid predators
When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.
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February 6th is the 46th anniversary of the first space sport. On this day in 1971, golf enthusiast-turned-astronaut Alan Shepard hit a g ...
Air Date: February 6, 2017
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Dr. Derrick Pitts and Dave Heller recap some important dates in space exploration this week. On February 1, 13 years ago, the Space ...
Air Date: January 30, 2017
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Intergalactic Space not so Spacey?
How is it that the Milky Way’s 11 most distant stars are 300,000 light years from Earth, well beyond th ...
Air Date: January 23, 2017
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Larry Molnar, an astronomy professor at Calvin College, announced last week that he and his students are foll ...
Air Date: January 17, 2017
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Vera Rubin’s son reflects on how she paved the way for women
His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...
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Thinking without a centralized brain: the intelligence of the octopus
An octopus does not think with its arms, per say, but it comes pretty close. The majority of octopuses’ neurons are not centrally l ...
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Dave Heller and Dr. Pitts start by discussing some amazing exoplanet discoveries. In 2017, we can look forward to NASA launching TESS (Tr ...
Air Date: January 9, 2017
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Greatest Astronomy Hits of 2016
Join us as we recap the top astronomy-related stories of 2016. 1. A potentially habitable planet was discovered orbiting the close ...
Air Date: January 2, 2017
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December 25 marks Christmas Day and December mini-moon day! The moon was at apogee, or the greatest distance from Earth (for the month). ...
Air Date: December 26, 2016
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The Winter Solstice arrives on Wednesday at 5:44 am. It marks the northern hemisphere’s greatest axial tilt away from the sun, prod ...
Air Date: December 19, 2016
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This package sold by weight, not by volume
Astronomers at Yale University and University of Toronto have identified something very new over in the Coma Cluster of galaxies 300 ligh ...
Air Date: December 12, 2016
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Reality mars plans for manned mission to Mars
Space exploration is fraught with danger, as evidenced in the National Geographic series MARS. Reinforcing that message, the recent ESA/ ...
Air Date: December 5, 2016
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