
Science
Bodysnatching and the curious case of One-Eyed Joe
This piece is part of our “Bodies” show. Take a look at the rest of our stories here. ...
9 years ago
Listen 24:18How are our bodies regulated after death?
Thousands of people donate their bodies to science each year, to be dissected by wide-eyed med students during their first-year anatomy c ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:25Mars is at its closest approach to Earth for this year. Surprisingly there are no rumors this time around about Mars appearing as large a ...
Air Date: May 31, 2016
Listen 00:03:54Autopsies contribute valuable scientific data, but they’ve become rare
Dr. Robert Ownbey, a pathologist who heads up the Hahnemann Hospital ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:15Beyond the eight planets orbiting our sun… the next largest objects are the cohort of so-called Dwarf Planets. Tomorrow marks the 5 ...
Air Date: May 24, 2016
Listen 00:04:52Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s $94 M upgrade to world’s most powerful fusion experiment
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) just celebrated a milestone in its research on fusion energy. After nearly four years of r ...
9 years ago
ListenThe newest Kepler satellite data reveals startling information about frequency of earth-like planets – 3,200 planets now confirmed, ...
Air Date: May 16, 2016
Listen 0:05:27Astronomers may have discovered a way to ‘see’ dark matter using gravitational lens distortions to see perturbations in Einst ...
Air Date: May 9, 2016
Listen 00:04:20Next Sunday is Beltane or Bealtane, the cross-quarter day between spring and summer. Once upon a time, this was actually seen as 1st day ...
Air Date: May 3, 2016
Listen 00:06:41Moving out of the weeds and toward the mainstream, cannabis conference comes to Philly
This weekend, Philadelphia will play host to its first-ever ...
9 years ago
Watershed moment in space exploration
Launch vehicle provider (United Launch Alliance) and habitat provider (Bigelow Aerospace) announce alliance to launch a private space hab ...
Air Date: April 26, 2016
Listen 00:07:20Philadelphia Science Festival kicks-off Friday with Astronomy Night
Astronomy Night is this Friday evening at 30 locations across the city. Find locations at philasciencefestival.org. This festival runs fr ...
Air Date: April 18, 2016
Listen 00:06:39Quasar 3C 273, that’s what’s hot. – 18 trillion degrees F! One of the largest black holes ever seen is discovere ...
Air Date: April 11, 2016
Listen 00:06:58This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...
Air Date: April 5, 2016
Listen 00:05:42Pa. awash in tide of last-minute voter registrations
County election officials in Pennsylvania are working their way through a wave of last-minute voter registration requests. Since t ...
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