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What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.
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No Small Endeavor

What does it mean to live a good life? What is true happiness? What are the habits and practices that lead to human flourishing? No Small Endeavor examines these questions with host Lee C. Camp.

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Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s $94 M upgrade to world’s most powerful fusion experiment

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) just celebrated a milestone in its research on fusion energy. After nearly four years of r ...

10 years ago

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Exoplanets
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Looking for Life

The newest Kepler satellite data reveals startling information about frequency of earth-like planets – 3,200 planets now confirmed, ...

Air Date: May 16, 2016

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Detecting Dark Matter

Astronomers may have discovered a way to ‘see’ dark matter using gravitational lens distortions to see perturbations in Einst ...

Air Date: May 9, 2016

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Happy Bealtane

Next Sunday is Beltane or Bealtane, the cross-quarter day between spring and summer. Once upon a time, this was actually seen as 1st day ...

Air Date: May 3, 2016

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Watershed moment in space exploration

Launch vehicle provider (United Launch Alliance) and habitat provider (Bigelow Aerospace) announce alliance to launch a private space hab ...

Air Date: April 26, 2016

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Philadelphia Science Festival kicks-off Friday with Astronomy Night

Astronomy Night is this Friday evening at 30 locations across the city. Find locations at philasciencefestival.org. This festival runs fr ...

Air Date: April 18, 2016

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Heart disease and depression

Researchers have known for some time that there’s a link between heart disease and depression. But – if the depression is tre ...

Air Date: April 18, 2016

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Quasar 3C 273
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What’s Hot?

Quasar 3C 273, that’s what’s hot. – 18 trillion degrees F! One of the largest black holes ever seen is discovere ...

Air Date: April 11, 2016

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Bigelow’s big idea takes off

This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...

Air Date: April 5, 2016

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The Stresses of Medical School

Going to medical school is stressful – that’s not surprising But new research finds that the demands, cost, and competitive natur ...

Air Date: April 4, 2016

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ATLAS maps movement of asteroids

Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...

Air Date: March 29, 2016

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Suicide Intervention

Each year, close to 40,000 Americans die by suicide – and researchers are always looking for new ways to prevent these deaths. But – ...

Air Date: March 28, 2016

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 Ciera Matlock, a student from Linwood Middle School in North Brunswick tries out a Van de Graaff generator at PPPL’s display. (Photo courtesy of Elle Starkman/PPPL Office of Communications)
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New Jersey girls find a voice and mentors at Princeton Plasma Physics Lab STEM conference

It was a loud, busy day. Nearly 600 middle- and high-school girls filled the ground floor of Princeton University’s Frick Chemistry ...

11 years ago

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The nose knows on Mars

European Space Agency and Roscosmos partnered to send a methane-hunting orbiter and a EDL systems tester to Mars. Should arrive in Octobe ...

Air Date: March 21, 2016

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Breast cancer and mental health

New research led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet in Munich takes a closer look at the impact of a breast cancer diagnosis on people ...

Air Date: March 21, 2016

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