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The annual Perseid Meteor Shower peaks early this week. The Rosetta spacecraft, now in orbit around Comet Churyumov-Gerisimenko after a 1 ...
Air Date: August 11, 2014
ListenNASA Mars test called success despite torn chute
NASA engineers insist a test of a vehicle to simulate a landing on Mars achieved most of its objectives despite a parachute that virtuall ...
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Let it gush, let it gush, let it gush
Count of geysers seen on Saturn’s moon Enceladus up to over 100 – No question about composition of jets, definitely water as ...
Air Date: August 4, 2014
ListenGPS satellite launched into space
A new Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite has been launched into space. An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket lifted off from Cape Cana ...
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Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’ slippin’ …
Amount of daylight is slowly receding. . . Sunset was at 8:33, now it’s 8:22; Sunrise is 5:52, was 5:33. We’ll really feel th ...
Air Date: July 29, 2014
ListenRJMetrics’ Robert J. Moore talks Philly, innovation, and recording a rap song
Philadelphia is on the map as a budding innovation hub, and it continues to grow. “I always have viewed Philadelphia as havi ...
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ListenWhen the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie – that’s a supermoon!
Supermoon? – Ridiculous! Invented by Astrologer Richard Nolle in 1979. Difference in size between these full moons and other full m ...
Air Date: July 22, 2014
ListenWednesday marks the 45th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 carrying the first humans to another celestial body. Buzz Aldrin is askin ...
Air Date: July 14, 2014
ListenThe overdose ‘antidote’: how Narcan works
Nalaxone or Narcan is one powerful drug, with powerful, immediate effects. So how does this lifesaving drug actually work? It come ...
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Listen 3:50A wrinkle in the fabric of space-time
Orbital Carbon Observatory-2- now in orbit will help scientists better understand Earth’s carbon cycle, identifying natural and man ...
Air Date: July 7, 2014
ListenLook aloft July 4th … and 5th!
Cassini Celebrates its 10th year at Saturn – will continue to explore until 2017 when it’ll plunge into Saturn’s atmosphere. Frankl ...
Air Date: July 2, 2014
ListenScience explains changes in water temperature from beach to beach
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
11 years ago
Listen 6:28“And if the band you’re in starts playing different tunes . . .”
Penn State Astronomers figure out why near side and far side of the moon are so different – front side, maria: large smooth areas w ...
Air Date: June 24, 2014
ListenBacon preservative tested as feral hog poison
A preservative used to cure bacon is being tested as poison for feral hogs. Scientists with U.S. Department of Agriculture say sod ...
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Report: Apple smartwatch to come this fall
A published report says Apple is likely to launch a computerized wristwatch this fall that includes more than 10 sensors to take health m ...
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