Health & Science
Audio 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.
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NASA 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
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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
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An 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
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2016 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
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Princeton 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
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2015 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
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At 11:48pm, Earth reaches a specific point in its orbit around the sun, where the axial tilt of the earth has its greatest extension away ...
Air Date: December 21, 2015
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In light of recent terrorist violence and mass shootings, it sometimes seems scary to go to public places, or big gatherings. In their we ...
Air Date: December 14, 2015
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Geminid meteor shower at its peak tonight
Meteors are typically debris from comets, but in this case, the Geminids are debris from asteroid 3200 Phaeton; only the January Quadrant ...
Air Date: December 14, 2015
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Building supplies? Jewelry? Babysitting? Kidney transplants get creative with Craigslist
Last week, doctors at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital canceled a kidney transplant surgery under unusual circumstances. The donor ...
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The European Space Agency’s LISA Pathfinder Satellite will launch soon to advance the goal of detecting the unbelievably small effe ...
Air Date: December 7, 2015
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Out of this World Turkey with Trimmings
International Space Station NASA Commander Scott Kelly and five fellow crew members at work over the Thanksgiving Holiday may be coming i ...
Air Date: November 30, 2015
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Trying to learn about the early history of the galaxy, NASA has used Hubble Space Telescope to find the oldest galactic ‘bones̵ ...
Air Date: November 23, 2015
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