Science
This week, Derrick focuses attention on the contributions of minorities and women to the field of astronomy. There are many birth ...
Air Date: March 13, 2017
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Daylight Saving Time kicks in at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 12. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney ...
Air Date: March 6, 2017
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As more and more planets are being discovered, it’s not a bad idea to come to a consensus on answering the question, “What ...
Air Date: February 27, 2017
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The pinelands pipeline, exoplanets, and the Oscars
Guests: Joe Hernandez, Eric Jensen, Hillary Busis First up on today’s show: New Jersey green-lit a natural gas ...
Air Date: February 27, 2017
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An aspiring astronaut’s life on fake Mars
Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...
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Exoplanets in the neighborhood
The twin 10m Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea in Hawaii have identified 100 more exoplanet candidates. On ...
Air Date: February 20, 2017
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Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh ...
Air Date: February 17, 2017
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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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