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Cool Science Radio | October 16, 2025

By Scott Greenberg,

Lynn Ware Peek

Published October 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM MDT

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Adventure Scientists’ Becky Schnekser talks about the Plastic-Free Parks TrashBlitz, a nationwide effort empowering volunteers to track and clean up plastic waste across U.S. national parks and federal lands. The data they collect will inform science-based solutions to reduce pollution and protect America’s most treasured spaces. (0:41)

NASA Sagan Fellow Margaret Thompson discusses her groundbreaking research on rocky exoplanets. Using laboratory experiments and theoretical models, she explores how these distant “magma worlds” form, evolve and develop atmospheres that may one day reveal signs of life. (26:16)

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Scott Greenberg

Co-Host Cool Science Radio and wine expert

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Lynn Ware Peek

KPCW Co-Host / Producer of The Mountain Life and Cool Science Radio

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