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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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A plane on an Ocean City beach after an emergency landing Saturday morning. (Image courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)
Down the Shore
Community

Small plane makes ‘successful emergency landing’ on N.J. beach

It was a "successful emergency landing" on the 49th Street beach in Ocean City Saturday morning, the Ocean City Police Department said in a news release.

7 years ago

Townsends Inlet Bridge, connecting Avalon and Sea Isle City, New Jersey. (Google Maps)
Down the Shore
Community

Officials: Troubled Shore bridge might reopen this summer

There's hope that a troubled bridge connecting Avalon and Sea Isle City could reopen this summer. 

7 years ago

Norval Reece, treasurer of the board of trustees of the David Library, holds a box of mircofim from the collection, which contains about a million pages of original material from the Revolutionary War era preserved on microfilm. He is joined by chief operating officer Meg McSweeney and acting librarian Andrew Zellers-Frederick. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment

American Revolution libraries to merge into one historical powerhouse

The David Library in Bucks County, Pa., will move into Center City to become part of the American Philosophical Society.

7 years ago

A maid walks through a bedroom in a suite in Atlantic City, N.J. (Mike Derer/AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

New Jersey hotel workers could soon carry panic buttons

Responding to an assault, New Jersey state lawmakers are considering panic buttons for hotel workers.

7 years ago

In this June 1, 2018, (file photo), U.S. President Donald Trump, (right), talks with Kim Yong Chol, former North Korean military intelligence chief and one of leader Kim Jong Un's closest aides, as they walk from their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. A South Korean newspaper is reporting that North Korea executed a senior envoy involved in nuclear negotiations with the U.S. as well as four other high-level officials. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo, File)
Politics & Policy

Amid report of N. Korea purge, there are reasons for caution

A South Korean newspaper reported Friday that North Korea executed a senior envoy involved in nuclear negotiations with the U.S. as well as four other high-level officials.

7 years ago

A Range Resources well site in Washington County in 2018. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Courts & Law
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Judge bars release of document in gas drilling suit

A judge has issued a court order barring The Allegheny Front, StateImpact Pennsylvania and 90.5 WESA from publishing a publicly available legal document.

7 years ago

This July 27, 2011 file photo shows a farmhouse in the background framed by pipes connecting pumps where the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale was underway at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Audit: Pa. Game commission didn’t track royalties from oil, gas

The Pennsylvania Game Commission failed to make sure that energy companies paid what they owed in royalties from oil and gas production on state hunting lands.

7 years ago

In this Friday, Jan. 11, 2019, photo, Maria Orbelina Cortez, (right), walks with her 3-year-old son, Julio, (center), and a worker at the Catholic Charities shelter in McAllen, Texas. Orbelina says she decided to flee El Salvador after her husband attacked her and caused a pan of hot oil to fall, scalding Julio and leaving a scar on his head. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)
Courts & Law
ProPublica

Over 200 allegations of abuse of migrant children; 1 case of Homeland Security disciplining someone

From 2009 to 2014, at least 214 complaints were filed against federal agents for abusing or mistreating migrant children.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby
Courts & Law

Bill Cosby drops defamation claims against 7 accusers

Bill Cosby has dropped his countersuit against seven women who accused him of sexually assaulting them.

7 years ago

Neighbors say there’s been a spike in drug use and public sleeping at Old City’s hidden Commerce Street path. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning

Redesigning an Old City green space for park use, not drug use

Community members see discarded syringes in the Old City walkway known as Commerce Street. With a $1.25 million redo, they hope to make it less secluded.

7 years ago

Riders were invited to test drive the Lime scooter at City Hall in Philadelphia. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Urban Planning
PlanPhilly

This e-scooter wants to defeat Philly’s potholes

E-scooters aren’t street legal in Philly but that isn’t stopping Lime from rolling out a brawnier model designed to withstand rough city streets.

7 years ago

Downed tree limbs remain on cars outside a business Wednesday May 29, 2019 in Morgantown, Berks County. The National Weather Service says a tornado has been confirmed Tuesday in eastern Pennsylvania, where damage to some homes and businesses occurred, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Science
PA Post

Why this season of tornadoes in Pa. has been ‘absolutely berserk’; a meteorologist explains

“What you’re seeing here is not unusual. What made it noteworthy is how persistent and stubborn that pattern has been.”

7 years ago

(Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

New Jersey’s medical marijuana program expansion plan advances

After failing to approve recreational marijuana sales, New Jersey will now greatly expand its medical marijuana program.

7 years ago

Karen Muir, (front), Becker's attorney, walked out of the Centre County Courthouse on Thursday, after the jury rendered a verdict for Becker. (Min Xian/WPSU)
Courts & Law

Jury finds former Penn State fraternity brother guilty of hindering investigation

To find Becker guilty of hindering, the jurors needed to believe that he concealed or destroyed evidence for a police investigation and that he did so intentionally.

7 years ago

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at an energy summit hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and attended by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Science

Energy secretary says US can make oil, gas, coal cleaner

The Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said.

7 years ago

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