Isla Earth Radio Series

Isla Earth

The Power Of BOB - January 30th: Everything's bigger in Texas. Even BOB!

"BOB" stands for "Big 'ol Battery." The nickname conferred by locals in Presidio, Texas, to an experimental electricity storage system, a battery that's the size of a small warehouse.

It sits right there in Presidio, and can power the whole town for eight hours, in case of grid failures.

BOB illustrates how Texas is emerging as a powerhouse in experimental electricity storage, and for good reaso...

Nemo - January 29th: Nemo was the cutest little animated fish. In the movie, he gets lost in the big blue ocean and dad goes looking for him.

Well, it turns out that for the real-life orange clown fish, the little ones do have trouble finding their way home -- under certain conditions.

At just 12 days old, clown fish larvae have to find their way back to a reef and pick out a sea anemone home. They rely on scents in the water and, possibly, sounds in the reefs to find just the right neighborhood.

The Round Goby, a fish from the Black Sea, has been hitching a ride to our side of the ocean via the ballast tanks of freighters. True or False?

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