
Health & Science
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 00:06:41‘It’s never too late’ to start again; life after addiction
Cory Cohen’s slide into addiction is one that echoes all over the country. Cohen is 22 years old, grew up in the suburbs of ...
9 years ago
ListenScientists 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 00:06:46Teen recounts experience of fighting for his life
My name is Diego Luke, and I am a 17-year-old high school junior in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grow ...
9 years ago
ListenGravitational Waves detected, confirming a key component of Albert Einstein’s understanding of the cosmos. Derrick Pitts, chief ast ...
Air Date: February 16, 2016
Listen 00:05:19The sounds of blood pressure: What are we listening for?
Blood pressure. It's one of the most important measurements in medicine. And yet, taking it correctly is kind of an art.
9 years ago
Listen 4:06What 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 00:06:29Audio Time Capsule: The discovery of Legionnaires’ disease
Solving the mysteries of infectious diseases requires man power, determination, and, in the case of Legionnaires' disease, pride.
10 years ago
Listen 20:51NASA 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 00:07:41NASA’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 00:05:51An Intergenerational Look at Behavioral Health
In this first of Dr. Dan’s Voices in the Family specials, he brings two young psychiatric residents together with their academic adviso ...
Air Date: January 11, 2016
Listen 00:50:322016 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 ...
10 years ago
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
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