Each weekday, Pulse of the Planet provides its listeners with a two-minute sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide and blending interviews and extraordinary natural sound.
Can iron nanoparticles be used to clean up toxic waste? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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1627
Animal Smarts - Doggie IQ
"Will Fetch For Food!" How do dogs go about solving their everyday problems? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1628
Mangroves - Shrimp Farms
A shrimp farm only lasts for five years. What happens after that? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1629
Treating Brain Tumors - Without Surgery
A new procedure may well change the way that cancerous tumors are treated. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1630
Treating Brain Tumors - New Procedure
A new form of cancer treatment involves no drugs and practically no surgery. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1631
Soil - Planet Skin
Some soils have taken hundreds of thousands of years to form. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1632
Privacy - Managing Anonymity
An app can help you navigate the info highway incognito. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1633
Ecotoxicology
By studying how contaminants influence wildlife, we may be able to learn how they effect human reproductive processes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1634
Soil - Organic Filter
Every drop of water we drink has gone through a piece of soil. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1635
Smartphones - Losing Your Way
Can you get there from here if you're not here? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1636
Smartphones - Side Effects
Welcome to the Cellphone Sabbath. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1637
Privacy - Big Brother is a Corporation
It's convenience versus the loss of privacy, while someone - or something, is watching. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1638
Smartphones - Two Places at Once
The paradox of being physically present but psychologically absent. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1639
Smartphones - At What Price
Does the mere presence of a smartphone effect the quality of face-to-face conversations? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1640
Drones - Software Package
Forest and watershed mapping and inventories, habitat assessments, post-processing of data; it's all in a day's work for a research drone. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1641
Drones - New Tool For Research
Drones are giving scientists unprecedented ways to gather data. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1642
Poison Ivy - Citizen Science
Here's a way that you can help track and control poison ivy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1643
Finches - Tough Life, Smart Bird
For birds, a bit of competition with their peers early on turns out to be a good thing. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1644
Finches - Learning to Sing
It all comes down to the tutor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1645
Finches - Sounds Just Like Dad
If you're wooing a female finch, you'd better sound like her father. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1646
Algorithm of Discovery - Defining What Isn't
Is it possible to better understand what something is, by knowing what it is not? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1647
Antibiotics - Breaking Them Down
Antibiotics in cow manure? Composting can help degrade them before they end up in fertilizer. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1648
Antibiotics Underground
Farmers destroy the milk from cows treated with antibiotics. But the antibiotics could still impact the environment outside the farm. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1649
Antibiotics and Milk
What happens to the milk from cows who were given antibiotics? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2 min
1650
Algorithm of Discovery - A New Way of Seeing th...
New drugs, new kinds of materials, new insights into the dynamics of ecosystems - all from reinventing the way we categorize things. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.