
Science
ATLAS maps movement of asteroids
Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...
Air Date: March 29, 2016
Listen 00:07:37New Jersey girls find a voice and mentors at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab STEM conference
It was a loud, busy day. Nearly 600 middle- and high-school girls filled the ground floor of Princeton University’s Frick Chemistry ...
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ListenEuropean Space Agency and Roscosmos partnered to send a methane-hunting orbiter and a EDL systems tester to Mars. Should arrive in Octobe ...
Air Date: March 21, 2016
Listen 00:05:13A look at the work of Albert Einstein – he was born on March 14 in 1879. Today is also the birthday of Gene Cernan (born in ...
Air Date: March 14, 2016
Listen 00:06:47Clocks shift forward one hour this Sunday morning (2 a.m.) A total solar eclipse can be seen this week in Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawes ...
Air Date: March 7, 2016
Listen 00:05:42Philly tech ambassadors trying to spread the word at SXSW
Representatives from the Philadelphia region’s tech scene are packing their bags for Texas. This Friday, the 2016 edition of ...
9 years ago
Year in Space chronicles Astronaut Scott Kelly’s preparation and 12-month mission (starting with the launch last Mrch 27th ...
Air Date: March 1, 2016
Listen 00:06:41Scientists are using the aging Hubble Space Telescope to determine the components of the atmosphere of a so-called super-Earth planet 40 ...
Air Date: February 23, 2016
Listen 00:06:46Gravitational Waves detected, confirming a key component of Albert Einstein’s understanding of the cosmos. Derrick Pitts, chief ast ...
Air Date: February 16, 2016
Listen 00:05:19What happens when the gas supply at a Black Hole runs out? – It’s “lights out!” Previous evidence suggested that ...
Air Date: February 8, 2016
Listen 00:04:13EARTH orbit – 365 days, 2MASS J2126 orbit – 328,500,000 days
Astronomers have found a gas-giant exoplanet named 2MASS J2126 that orbits about 600 billion miles out from it’s star, meaning the ...
Air Date: February 1, 2016
Listen 00:06:29As hyperloop design finalist, Drexel team bringing the ride stuff
In 2013, the famed inventor and billionaire Elon Musk laid out an idea, a sort of “moonshot” for transportation. Calling it t ...
9 years ago
ListenNASA astronaut Scott Kelly aboard ISS has had success utilizing available sunlight to grow Zinnias – a prerequisite along the way t ...
Air Date: January 25, 2016
Listen 00:07:41Venture capital invests 25 percent more in Philly region in 2015
Last year was a rebound year for the Delaware Valley’s startup scene. Venture capitalists invested more than $600 million in local ...
9 years ago
NASA’s New Horizen’s August fly-by over Pluto is revealing several surprises – including evidence of an internal heat s ...
Air Date: January 18, 2016
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