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This Washington state dam is trying to be fish-friendly
The people at Wanapum Dam are trying to balance the interests of fish and clean power. The Wanapum Dam is massive. It̵ ...
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Listen 3:42Mimicking nature, an artificial leaf can recycle CO2
An artificial leaf created by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago captures greenhouse gas and puts it to work again. ...
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Listen 4:19Why don’t more farms convert poop to power?
Imagine 7,000 gallons of cow manure. It smells. Brett Reinford’s dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania has 700 cows, and that& ...
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Listen 6:04Renewable energy jobs bring new life to old coal towns
In some former coal towns, residents continue to hold tight to that economy and identity. Reporter Elizab ...
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Listen 6:42What is the grid and why do renewables strain it?
In the push for an electrical energy source that can sustainably power the modern world — namely, renewables, like wind and solar — t ...
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Listen 5:49President Donald Trump’s proposed 2018 budget cuts NASA’s funding by 1%. What’s lost? Some Earth Observing missions, th ...
Air Date: March 27, 2017
Listen 00:05:45Vera Rubin. Zora Neale Hurston. Eugenie Clark. On this episode, we celebrate women who forged a path for generations of female scientists ...
Air Date: March 24, 2017
Listen 49:35How New Jersey is trying to become the ‘Silicon Valley’ for the commercial drone industry
In a quiet corner of South Jersey, in a hangar built for the Second World War and stacked with history, a tech company hopes to help buil ...
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Tilting toward the summer season
Monday was an important day for folks who are sick of winter—the Vernal (or Spring) Equinox! The tilt of Earth’s rota ...
Air Date: March 21, 2017
Listen 00:05:31Sharks aren’t just for boys: Gills Club inspires aspiring female biologists
It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...
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Listen 4:37Game developer wants to take her cultural critique to Congress
Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...
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Listen 5:06Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist first
The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...
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Listen 9:55Google to appeal case that could require it hand over emails to FBI
Whether you use Gmail or Microsoft Outlook or something else, your emails may be stored in servers outside the U.S. and potentially out o ...
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