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Science

Bears in Pennsylvania are struggling with mange they can't seem to kick. (Brandon Wade/AP Images for The Humane Society of the United States)
Environment

Scientists mobilize to account for rise in mange among Pa. bears

Bears in Pennsylvania are struggling with mange they can't seem to kick. Scientists are studying what's unique about the disease in the state.

7 years ago

X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), taken by NASA's NuSTAR. The field of view covers the west limb of the sun.
Skytalk
Space

On the Prowl for Solar Siblings

Our sun, like so many others, was born as part of a cluster of stars. Sibling stars have the same chemical composition and can be discove ...

Air Date: April 24, 2018

Listen 05:53
A panel talk on Philadelphia's opioid crisis featured (from left) Maiken Scott, moderator and host of WHYY's The Pulse; Michael McMahon, district attorney of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York; Cynthia Reilly, director of Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative; Evan Behrle, special adviser for opioid policy at Baltimore City's Health Department; Thomas Farley, Philadelphia's health commissioner. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Addiction
Philadelphia

Philly is ‘floating on opioids’: Civic leaders address drug crisis, share solutions

Philadelphia is wrestling with one of the nation’s highest overdose death rates amid a drug crisis that does not appear to be letting up.

7 years ago

A customer adds mustard to corn dogs at Fox and Son at Reading Terminal Market. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia

Lots of thought for food at ’18 Philly Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival brings new perspective to Reading Terminal Market treats.

7 years ago

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the TESS satellite lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday. The satellite will scan nearly the entire sky for alien worlds. (John Raoux/AP)
NPR
Business
Space

SpaceX launches NASA satellite to search for alien worlds

Tess — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — will spend two years searching for planets.

7 years ago

Carrie Feibel only had one child, her daughter Joni, and was able to ease her eco-anxiety. (Courtesy of Carrie Feibel)
The Pulse
Environment

Only Joni: Choosing one child

Living in Houston with flaring smokestacks in the distance stoked Carrie Feibel’s eco-anxieties. Still, she decided to have a kid... but just one.

7 years ago

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Many communities rely on inefficient and dirty wood fired stoves to cook. A common carbon offset project is to supply communities with cleaner, more efficient stoves. For recipients, like this family in Honduras, it saves time and money, as well as carries health benefits. (Courtesy of Cool Effect)
The Pulse
Environment

Carbon indulgences: Pay to lighten your carbon footprint

Some companies offer you the chance to “erase” your carbon sins without making big changes to your lifestyle.

7 years ago

Listen 7:57
A mosquito's antenna responds to odors. Scientists are trying to figure out how the malaria parasite might trigger a change in body odor that draws in mosquitoes that carry the disease, like the Anopheles skeeter pictured above. (BSIP/UIG/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment

What brings a mosquito in for the bite?

Here's what you learn when you put smelly socks in front of mosquitoes.

7 years ago

This undated microscope image provided by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in January 2018 shows a trophectoderm biopsy, in which cells from the outer layer of an embryo that develop into the placenta and amniotic membranes are removed and can be used for genetic testing. When a couple is known to be at risk for having a child with a specific genetic disorder, the woman undergoes a procedure to remove some of her eggs. After fertilization, some cells can be plucked from the embryos and examined to identify those without carry the disease-causing abnormality. (ASRM via AP)
Home & Family
Innovation

Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile

You've probably read about concerns over "designer babies," whose DNA is shaped by gene editing.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Shedding Light on Dark Matter

Scientists at the University of Washington have developed the tech to ‘see’ what could be a low-mass particle responsible for ...

Air Date: April 17, 2018

Listen 05:57
The Greenland ice sheet, the second largest body of ice in the world which covers roughly 80 percent of the country, has been melting and its glaciers retreating at an accelerated pace in recent years due to warmer temperatures. (David Goldman/AP)
NPR
Environment

Atlantic Ocean current slows down to 1,000-year low, studies show

While scientists disagree about what's behind the sluggish ocean current, the shift could mean bad news for the climate.

7 years ago

Sculpture work by artist Sophie Kahn in Phantom Limb at the Esther Klein Gallery. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Technology
Visual Arts

Philly exhibit explores idea of technology as 21st-century phantom limb

The idea is that technology has distorted how we view ourselves and society — and yet, it is an inescapable part of us.

7 years ago

Listen 1:47
Brian Smith plays a racing game blindfolded. He made a user interface for blind players to drive in video games, just like sighted players. He tested it with blind volunteers, as well as blindfolded sighted volunteers.
The Pulse
Innovation
Media
Technology

Playing video games when you can’t see the screen

A computer scientist is pushing large video game makers to design games that blind people can enjoy.

7 years ago

Listen 6:32
Radio Times
Biology
Environment

How cities are driving animal evolution

Guest: Menno Schilthuizen Our fast-paced crowded cities aren’t just impacting our lives, they are shaping anima ...

Air Date: April 11, 2018

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A pile of waste coal sits abandoned in Fredericktown. Photo: Reid Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

State to send $25M to help clean up a dozen abandoned coal mine sites

Pennsylvania announced approval of $25 million in funding for cleanup of abandoned mines at 12 sites around the state.

8 years ago

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