Science
Sun’s Original Twin: What happened to it? UC Berkeley astronomer Steven Stahler and Sarah Sadevoy of Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse ...
Air Date: June 19, 2017
Listen 00:06:34NOAA: New Jersey will see an increase in nuisance flooding in 2017
For Jersey Shore residents and regular summer visitors, it’s just part of life. Once in a while, even on a still and sunny day, tid ...
9 years ago
Fuel, oxygen, and ignition: the science of fireworks
A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...
9 years ago
Listen 4:47Science can make blockbuster movies better
Hollywood directors have a direct line to consulting scientists. Let’s say you’re a filmmaker. You want to put a littl ...
9 years ago
Listen 7:49Guest: David Baron A total solar eclipse will occur on August 21st of this year over the United States ...
Air Date: June 15, 2017
Listen 00:49:00If you’re sweating from our current heat wave, be glad you don’t live on planet KELT-9, orbiting a blue A-type star 620 light ...
Air Date: June 12, 2017
Listen 00:04:39Why the Red Knot bird lives and dies by what happens here
Everything is in place along the Delaware Bay beach on an early late Spring morning. The net is carefully folded, the cannons set at the ...
9 years ago
Wiltshire, England doesn’t have the monopoly on solar events with summer solstice at Stonehenge. Philadelphia is a suitable site to ...
Air Date: June 5, 2017
Listen 00:05:44A cosmic debris ring has been observed around a star where a planet has already been directly observed. Plus, the observed lunar in ...
Air Date: May 29, 2017
Listen 00:04:28Sunset now comes at 8:15pm, giving us 14 hours and 36 minutes of daylight here at Philadelphia’s latitude. We have about four ...
Air Date: May 23, 2017
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