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K-12
Public Health

How Schools Shape Health

School is a place where kids learn about health — everything from nutrition to avoiding STDs. But increasingly, schools across the coun ...

Air Date: August 24, 2018

Listen 48:51
The exterior of Aqua Pennsylvania offices in Bryn Mawr
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health

PFAS chemicals showing up in Montco water beyond military bases

Aqua has taken two wells offline due to elevated levels of potentially harmful chemicals.

7 years ago

Listen 1:50
A Mariner East 2 pipeline construction site is shown off Valley Road near Media, Pensylvaniaa., on Aug. 22. The site is close to where Sunoco is digging up a section of the pipeline after discovering a coating issue that needed to be fixed. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco replaces section of Mariner East 2 because of flaws in pipeline coating

7 years ago

An all-sky view of stars in our Galaxy – the Milky Way – and neighbouring galaxies, based on the first year of observations from ESA’s Gaia satellite, from July 2014 to September 2015.
Skytalk
Space

On the Prowl for Planets

The successor to the highly successful Kepler planet-hunting satellite TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) sent the first data d ...

Air Date: August 20, 2018

Listen 05:39
Patient Aaron Reid receives (CAR) T-cell therapy at the NIH in Bethesda, MD. The process took five minutes to complete. (Pearl Mak/NPR)
NPR
Biology
Health Care

Scientists race to improve ‘living drugs’ to fight cancer

The engineered cells are made by extracting T cells — a key part of the immune system -- from each patient's blood and then genetically modifying them in the lab.

7 years ago

The Pulse
Mental Health

When Panic Attacks

From panic disorders to social phobia, anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States. What toll does anxiety ta ...

Air Date: August 17, 2018

Listen 48:36
A new report out of Penn State University says corn production in the Southeastern part of the state could be especially vulnerable in the coming decades. (Photo provided by Greg Roth/Penn State)
Keystone Crossroads
Changing Communities
Pennsylvania

Ahead of climate change projections, some Pa. farmers make adaptations to new weather patterns

For many farmers in the state, last month's intense precipitation is part of a pattern of weather changes of which they are trying to adapt.

7 years ago

A Guadalupe fur seal, foreground. Rescue crews are seeing a higher than average amount of stranded sea lions. Marine biologists nicknamed a patch of persistent high temperatures in the Pacific Ocean between 2013 and 2016 “the Blob.” During that period, decreased phytoplankton production led to a “lack of food for many species,” from fish to marine mammals. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Environment

Under the sea, marine heat waves can wreak havoc on wildlife

Even the oceans are breaking temperature records in this summer of heat waves.

7 years ago

Aviv Regev, a core member of the Broad Institute, is leading the international Human Cell Atlas Consortium.
(Casey Atkins/Broad Institute)
NPR
National

Ambitious ‘Human Cell Atlas’ aims to catalog every type of cell in the body

The Human Cell Atlas Consortium aims to account for and better understand every cell type and sub-type, and how they interact.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Time to Start Spotting Sunspots

The current (approximately 11-year-long) Solar Cycle is about to come to an end. Several years of long stretches of days without sunspot ...

Air Date: August 13, 2018

Listen 07:40
NPR
Space

NASA braves the heat to get up close and personal with our sun

Early Saturday morning, if all goes as planned, 91-year-old Eugene Parker will watch a NASA spacecraft named after him blast off on an unprecedented mission to study the sun.

7 years ago

Dolphins swim in the Shrewsbury River Wednesday, July 2, 2008, in Sea Bright, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

A missing gene could make marine mammals more vulnerable to common pesticides

Next steps: Figure out how much of the pesticide is in the water, then assess the impact

7 years ago

U.S. Seretary of Energy Rick Perry speaks to scientists at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
Energy
Politics

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry salutes fusion work at N.J. lab

Perry visits Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory for a tour and a chance to address hundreds of scientists.

7 years ago

Tank Creek was classified as an exceptional value stream by DEP in October 2017. It feeds into the Delaware River.
(Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Environment
Pennsylvania

In the Poconos, a fight simmers over ‘exceptional’ streams

Resort owners worry the greater protections could hamper future development.

7 years ago

Listen 4:51
Delaware Water Gap. (Kim Paynter/WHYYNews)
Delaware
Environment

$4.3M fund to support Delaware River watershed conservation

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation are launching a $4.3 million fund to support conservation efforts in the Del. River watershed.

7 years ago

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