
Science
AstraZeneca gets fast-track FDA approval process for promising blood cancer drug
AstraZeneca gets FDA approval to move forward with Calquence (acalabrutinib), a drug used to fight an aggressive form of blood cancer.
7 years ago
Forced out of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria, Rutgers grad looks for new home for her lab
The devastation left by last month’s powerful storm is making it impossible to continue her work on Puerto Rico.
7 years ago
Listen 0:00Archaeologist claims hundreds of 18th-century Philly remains may have been dumped in landfill
The hundreds of remains in question would have been found between March and June at a Center City location under construction for condos.
7 years ago
Not merely out-of-this-world, a comet from beyond our solar system came and went earlier this month. Cross-quarter-day approaches ...
Air Date: October 30, 2017
Listen 05:43Pennsylvania’s biggest environmental group is getting a new CEO
Jacquelyn Bonomo is succeeding Larry Schweiger as the leader of PennFuture. Schweiger is retiring.
7 years ago
Costa Rica banks on low-carbon coffee
The low-carbon coffee that Costa Rica is pushing is part of an overall plan by the country to become the first carbon neutral nation.
7 years ago
Pennsylvania’s environmental rights amendment is back from the dead
John Dernbach, director of the Environmental Law and Sustainability Center at Widener University sat down with StateImpact to discuss.
7 years ago
PUC’s West Goshen ruling cheers advocates for local control over pipelines
The commission voted unanimously on Thursday to uphold a judge’s ruling that prevented Sunoco from building the valve and associated equipment on private land.
7 years ago
Marcellus Shale boom cuts costs for Pennsylvania ratepayers
Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale gas boom has significantly cut energy costs for consumers across the state, according to a new study released Friday.
7 years ago
First Person: Delaware’s tech scene
The growing presence of a tech scene here in Delaware.
7 years ago
Horror movie sounds evoke primal fear
Sound designers have a bag of acoustic “scares” to frighten and unnerve an audience.
7 years ago
Listen 7:14NRDC: Global warming making heatwaves hotter and more common
If it seems as if summers are getting hotter, they are — at least from the perspective of more days when people are exposed to extreme ...
7 years ago
Future in limbo for coal ash site
A Greene County coal ash landfill won’t be receiving any more coal waste until December, at the earliest.
7 years ago