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1. A near-death experience, a tabloid frenzy and one woman's plan to reclaim her story

Subjects
Deer, Physicists -- Interviews, Animal attacks, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1173729027 HOST: MANOUSH ZOMORODI MANOUSH ZOMORODI: It's the TED RADIO HOUR from NPR. I'm Manoush Zomorodi. And our story today begins one winter [...]

Published
2023

2. What makes that song swing? At last, physicists unravel a jazz mystery

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, Swing dancing -- Physiological aspects -- Psychological aspects, Musicians -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1139783203 BYLINE: MARIA GODOY HOST: A MARTÍNEZ A MARTÍNEZ: Now a mystery about music. (SOUNDBITE OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG SONG, 'WHAT IS THIS THING [...]

Published
2023

3. Hakeem Oluseyi Publishes Memoir: 'A Quantum Life'

Subjects
A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Streets to the Stars (Autobiography), Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1006149618 BYLINE: NOEL KING NOEL KING: Hakeem Oluseyi is an astrophysicist. As a kid, he did all of the astrophysicist-y (ph) things. He [...]

Published
2021

4. Ex-Energy Secretary Says Fixing Climate Change Is Tough, There's No Vaccine

Subjects
Green technology -- Forecasts and trends, Physicists -- Interviews, Climatic changes -- Laws, regulations and rules, Electric power production -- Forecasts and trends -- Environmental aspects, Government regulation, Market trend/market analysis, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=943768888 HOST: STEVE INSKEEP STEVE INSKEEP: President-elect Biden plans to change U.S. climate policies - or rather pick up where they left off, [...]

Published
2020

5. 'It Was Personal.' After Tragedy, Physicist Devotes Career To Cancer Research

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, Family life -- Social aspects, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=888902565 HOST: DAVID GREENE (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE: On this Friday, it's time for StoryCorps. By the time she was 4, Dr. [...]

Published
2020

6. NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Conducts Farthest-Ever Fly-By Of An Object

Subjects
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- Equipment and supplies, New Horizons (Space probe), Space probes, Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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HOST: AUDIE CORNISHAUDIE CORNISH: While you were ringing in the new year, a spacecraft about the size of a grand piano made history. NASA's New Horizons passed by Ultima Thule. [...]

Published
2019

7. Former U.S. Science Envoy: The Tone Of Climate Talks Is Now 'Quite Grim'

Subjects
Climate change -- Political aspects, Physicists -- Interviews, Public radio, Diplomats, Environmental issues
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Author(s): NPR.NPR's Michel Martin talks with Daniel Kammen, former science envoy to the State Department, about the U.N. climate talks being held in [...]

Published
2018

8. Allan Adams: Can Gravitational Waves Tell Us How The Universe Began?

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, Gravitational waves -- Analysis, Astronomy -- Analysis, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=584322845 HOST: GUY RAZ GUY RAZ: It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. So you ready to hear it? HENRY: [...]

Published
2018

9. Scientist Stephon Alexander: 'Infinite Possibilities' Unite Jazz And Physics

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=481664722 MARTIN: Finally today, we're going to hear about an unexpected merger between jazz and physics. Stephon Alexander is a physicist who hears [...]

Published
2016

10. Physicist Talks 'Great Leaps' Of Physical World In 'Seven Brief Lessons On Physics'

Subjects
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Nonfiction work) -- Authorship, Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=478114661 WERTHEIMER: Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who heads a group studying quantum gravity in Southern France. And if that is [...]

Published
2016

11. Two Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Physics For Neutrinos Discoveries

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, Neutrinos -- Discovery and exploration, Nobel laureates -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=446370849 MCEVERS: Today the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to two researchers. Takaaki Kajita, of Japan, and Arthur McDonald, of Canada, won [...]

Published
2015

12. 'Queen Of Carbon' Among Medal Of Freedom Honorees

Subjects
Medal of Freedom, Physicists -- Interviews
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To listen to this broadcast, click here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=366379355 CORNISH: And we're going to meet one of the other recipients of this year's Medal of Freedom. She's known in science circles as […]

Published
2014

13. The Bang In The Big Bang

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, Big bang theory, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
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To listen to this broadcast, click here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=291175858 YOUNG: It's HERE AND NOW. When a team of astronomers announced yesterday that radio telescopes at the South Pole peered back 13.8 billion [...]

Published
2014

14. New MacArthur Genius Made Old Sound Recordings Safe

Subjects
MacArthur Fellows -- 2013 AD, Optics -- 2013 AD, Sound recordings -- 2013 AD, Physicists -- Interviews
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=226205891 SIEGEL: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. BLOCK: And I'm Melissa Block. Winners of the 24 MacArthur […]

Published
2013

15. Physicists Find New Particle, Look for Answers

Subjects
The Particle at the End of Universe (Nonfiction work), Quarks -- Identification and classification, Physicists -- Interviews, Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Identification and classification, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=194230826 FLATOW: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. This week, researchers reported that they think they've spotted the tell-tale science of a [...]

Published
2013

16. Resetting the Theory of Time

Subjects
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (Nonfiction work), Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=184775924 FLATOW: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. To most of us, time is real: you've run out of time; you don't [...]

Published
2013

17. Is Our Universe The Only Universe?

Subjects
Expanding universe -- Natural history, Physicists -- Interviews, Universe -- Natural history, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=172322740 RAZ: Okay so, about 400 billion stars, and at least that many planets, in our own Milky Way galaxy, right? But what [...]

Published
2013

18. Amidst Rocky Peaks, Physicists Ponder The Universe

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=158572701 This is SCIENCE FRIDAY from NPR. I'm Ira Flatow. How many pictures have you seen of Einstein in front of a blackboard, [...]

Published
2012

19. Changing Views About A Changing Climate

Subjects
Energy For Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines (Nonfiction work), Human beings -- Influence on nature, Physicists -- Interviews, Climatic changes -- Research, Authors -- Interviews, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=158085161 This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. This week, physicist Richard Muller published an op-ed piece in the New York Times in [...]

Published
2012

20. Can Science Be Done Without Secrecy?

Subjects
Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science (Nonfiction work), Physicists -- Interviews, Science, Internet -- Usage, Internet, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=145990103This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Chances are you've come across the website Wikipedia in your daily online searches. It's a free [...]

Published
2012

21. PHYSICS NOBELISTS OBSERVED AN ACCELERATING UNIVERS

Subjects
Expanding universe, Physicists -- Interviews, Nobel laureates -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141156398 IRA FLATOW, host: This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has just been awarded to three American astronomers for their unexpected discovery that [...]

Published
2011

22. Brian Greene on The Hidden Reality

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134265287 IRA FLATOW, host: This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Up next: physics to make your hair hurt in a, really, a [...]

Published
2011

23. A Physicist Explains Why Parallel Universes May Exist

Subjects
The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos (Nonfiction work) -- Authorship, Cosmic physics -- Research, Physicists -- Interviews, Arts, visual and performing, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132932268 TERRY GROSS, host: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Our interview today is about discoveries in physics and cosmology, but it [...]

Published
2011

24. In Your Ear: Renowned Physicist Shirley Jackson

Subjects
Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125856094 MICHEL MARTIN, host: And now an academic star gives us an education in music. It's a segment we call In Your Ear. [...]

Published
2010

25. Sean Carroll On The Mysteries Of Time

Subjects
Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time (Nonfiction work), Physicists -- Interviews, General interest
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123115538 IRA FLATOW, host: Talking about the 21st century, we like to think that we know lots about lots of things -- medicine. [...]

Published
2010

26. Baseball Humidor Aids Fair Play in Denver

Subjects
Baseball (Professional) -- Environmental aspects, Physicists -- Interviews
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To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15695600 ANDREA SEABROOK, host: Time now for Science Out of the Box, our weekly segment when we try to answer our question of […]

Published
2007

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