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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.
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Hidden Brain helps curious people understand the world and themselves. Using science and storytelling, Hidden Brain reveals the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior, and the biases that shape our choices.

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FERC's headquarters in Washington, DC. The agency said it will review its longstanding policy on certification of natural gas pipelines. (MARIE CUSICK/ STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
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Pennsylvania

FERC, saying ‘much has changed’, will review natural gas pipeline policy

8 years ago

File photo. A Chesapeake Energy natural gas well site in Bradford County, PA. (RALPH WILSON / AP PHOTO)
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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Attorney General’s lawsuit over royalty payments advances

8 years ago

Rutgers University seniors Taylor Dodge and Steven Weber are headed to Antarctica. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Krill-seeking in Antarctica

Heading south over the holidays?  It’s doubtful you’ll be going as far south as Rutgers University s ...

8 years ago

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In this Oct. 4, 2017, file photo, Dr. Albert Maguire, right, checks the eyes of Misa Kaabali, 8, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Misa was 4-years-old when he received his gene therapy treatment. On Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration approved the therapy which improves the vision of patients with a rare form of inherited blindness, another major advance for the burgeoning field of genetic medicine. (Bill West/AP Photo, file)
Business
Medicine
Philadelphia

Spark’s gene therapy for rare form of blindness wins FDA approval

For Katherine High, president and chief scientific officer at Spark Therapeutics, the drug’s approval signals renewed hope in the possibilities of gene therapy.

8 years ago

Protesters march on Arch Street in support of the EPA, Tuesday, March 21, 2017. EPA employee Gary Morton spoke at the rally. About a week later, a Freedom of Information Act request was made seeking any emails between him and Sen. Bob Casey.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

EPA union leader: Public records request was ‘retaliation for my political activities’

8 years ago

Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary of DEP's Office of Oil and Gas Management holds up an iPad.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

DEP says iPads, plus a new app, mean staff can do more oil and gas inspections

8 years ago

Skytalk
Space

The Winter Solstice is At Hand

Monday, December 18 is the new moon of the year’s last lunar cycle. The moon will be in the 1st quarter by Christmas Eve. If you ...

Air Date: December 18, 2017

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Participants in a candlelight vigil in 2013 mark the one-year anniversary of the death of a 23-year-old woman who was gang-raped on a bus in Delhi. (Raj K. Raj/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
NPR

In interviews with 122 rapists, student pursues not-so-simple question: Why?

Her study has inspired others in India as well.

8 years ago

The Philippine eagle Pithecophaga jefferyi faces extinction from mining, pollution and poaching.
(Tim Flach)
NPR
Environment

Animals that could disappear because of us

Earth is facing an extinction crisis — and humans shoulder the blame.

8 years ago

Cocktail avocados: adorable, seedless — safer for those who can't cut the kind with a pit? (Maanvi Singh/for NPR)
NPR
Food & Drink
Innovation

Avocado hand injuries are real. Is a seedless fruit the answer?

Behold, the cocktail avocado. No, that's not a weird cucumber. It's the latest in avocado innovation, on offer at British retail chain Marks & Spencer.

8 years ago

A sign marks the path of the Mariner East 1 pipeline through Chester County. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Politics

Congressman Meehan seeks pipeline risk assessment for Mariner East 2

Responding to landowners’ concerns Congressman Pat Meehan has asked Gov. Tom Wolf to conduct a risk assessment of Sunoco’s Mariner East 2 pipeline.

8 years ago

Bill Nye in his television show,
The Pulse
Media
TV

Should we talk about science like it’s magic?

We struggled to balance information and entertainment back in science TV shows to the '50s and '60s. In some ways, we still do.

8 years ago

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The road leading to Ian McLennan's 5,000-acre farm. (Kate Golden/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment

We’re running out of water. Can we get it from the air?

Engineers are competing globally to invent a device that can ease water shortages.

8 years ago

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A natural gas well pad in central Pennsylvania, with a home in the foreground. A new study shows infants born to mothers living within a half mile of active fracking sites have a higher risk of low birth weights compared to those living further away. (Scott Detrow/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
NewsWorks Tonight
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Study: Low birth weights linked to fracking sites

Infants born to mothers who live very close to natural gas fracking sites have a higher risk of low birth weight, according to a new study published Wednesday.

8 years ago

Construction of the Atlantic Sunrise pipeline in Lancaster County. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
Politics

Federal regulators won’t reconsider approval of Atlantic Sunrise pipeline

Construction on the pipeline began in September. It's being built to carry Marcellus Shale gas from northeastern Pa. to markets along the East Coast.

8 years ago

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