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Philly 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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
Listen 00:05:512016 Out-of-this-World Highlights
Lots of cool planetary observing this coming spring and summer, as well as two lunar eclipses and two solar eclipses… but the real ...
Air Date: January 11, 2016
Listen 00:05:02Princeton Plasma Physics Lab offers ‘Science on Saturday’ lecture series
On Saturday morning, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory will fill with a new type of energy: the public. Science lovers, stud ...
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2016 starts off with a (big) bang
This is a big week astronomically speaking…- Saturday we arrived at perihelion, yesterday was Summer solstice on Mars, tomorrow we enjo ...
Air Date: January 4, 2016
Listen 00:05:052015 Out of this World Highlights
Last week’s SpaceX mission was a great success but the real ‘heavy lifting’ is being done by Scott Kelly during his one ...
Air Date: December 28, 2015
Listen 00:07:03‘Gear geeks’ go whole hog to exceed RevZilla customer expectations
There’s $1,500 on the line. All Adam Ponzek has to do is keep his hairstyle decidedly mullet for one year. “It is pret ...
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