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The annual Perseid meteor shower will put on its best and brightest display between Aug. 12 and 13 from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. The atmospheric conditions are near perfect, but the weather conditions are not.
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A Des Moines OBGYN shares how the current political climate has impacted patients and lawmakers discuss a new bill that would remove gender identity as a protected characteristic from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. -
In this episode we explore how our understanding of eclipses and witches have evolved from centuries ago.
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The TRACERS mission will send satellites into Earth's orbit to study how the Earth and the sun's powerful magnetic fields interact.
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Ed Stone, the former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and longtime project scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, was known for his steady leadership and enthusiasm for engaging the public in science.
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In 1869, Iowa was directly in the path of a total solar eclipse.
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Burlington local Brian Metzger joined Ben Kieffer on River to River to discuss how his theory on the origins of gold and other heavy metals in the universe was recently proven to be true.
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The space probe Cassini has been exploring Saturn since 2004. One of the instruments on the two story tall spacecraft is from the University of Iowa…
