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Science Friday: Blue Marble: The Making Of
Hear how the famous "blue marble" pictures of Earth are actually built from datasets collected by instruments aboard satellites and then translated into imagery here on the ground.
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Science Friday: Crafting the 'Fastest Ice on Earth'
Marc Norman obsessively monitors the ice at the Utah Olympic Oval to create the perfect skating surface.
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Science Friday: Lester Brown: Plan B 4.0
Ira talks about global sustainability with Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute.
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Science Friday: Deep Bacterium Goes It Alone
Researchers studying a sample of bacteria from water taken from a crack in a South African gold mine -- nearly 3 kilometers below the surface of the Earth -- have found that the ecosystem in the crack consists of only one organism.
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Science Friday: Colliding Planets (Don't Panic)
New research finds a small -- but present -- chance of a collision between Earth and one of its planetary neighbors in the next few billion years.