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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Environment

Vanishing insects / Blooming jellyfish

Guests: Scott Black, Juli Berwald If you’ve noticed that bugs aren’t splattering on your windshield like they ...

Air Date: December 1, 2017

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Gas processing equipment in Lycoming County. (Joe Ulrich/ WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pa. wants to cut methane emissions, but plans moving slowly

Methane is the main component of natural gas. Compared to carbon dioxide, it’s much more potent as a climate-warming greenhouse gas.

8 years ago

(Sashkin/BigStock)
Biology

Expanding DNA’s alphabet lets cells produce novel proteins

A team at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, expanded the genetic alphabet, creating two artificial DNA "letters" called X and Y.

8 years ago

A photo from an Eperanto conference in Belgium in 1911. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Pulse

What happened to the quest for a universal language?

A century ago, Esperanto seemed poised to solve the problem of "scientific Babel."

8 years ago

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Delaware
Military
Space
Technology

Delaware firm that made spacesuits for Apollo moon crew celebrates 70 years

Delaware company that made the apparel Apollo astronauts wore to the moon celebrates seven decades of operation and innovation.

8 years ago

An easement where Sunoco Pipeline is preparing for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline. A homeowners group is asking a court to halt construction in that location until Sunoco comes up with a plan to mitigate contaminated soil on the site. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Sunoco proposes construction change for Mariner East 2, but meets fresh resistance

8 years ago

Part of the proposed PennEast pipeline could run through this stretch of land in Bucks County, Pa.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

FERC sued over alleged ‘unconstitutional’ granting of pipeline certificates

8 years ago

Natural gas drillers (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Lawmaker: Natural gas lobby too influential in severance tax debate

8 years ago



A virtual reality program developed by NASA could help scientists visualize the magnetic fields around the earth. (NASA)
NPR
K-12
Technology

NASA taps young people to help develop virtual reality technology

NASA has big hopes for virtual reality technology.

8 years ago


There are many different ways to hold a divining rod or dowsing rod. Some people prefer to
NPR
Environment
History

U.K. water companies sometimes use dowsing rods to find pipes

One water company, in a display of honesty, said technicians occasionally use divining rods to locate water mains — "however they are not accurate 100% of the time."

8 years ago

Astronauts Joan E. Higginbotham and Sunita L. Williams refer to a procedures checklist as they work together in the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station. (<a href=Photo via NASA)" title="getting-along" width="1" height="1"/>
The Pulse
Mental Health
Sex & Relationships
Space

How do astronauts deal with conflict in cramped quarters?

Getting along with your coworkers can be tough in any job – much less one where you eat, sleep and work just feet away from one ano ...

8 years ago

(photo courtesy DE Dept. of Agriculture)
Delaware
Environment

Invasive insect 'hitchhikes' to Delaware

A non-native insect posing a potential threat to agriculture has hitched a ride to Delaware—and now a state investigation is underway to find out if it was a lone traveler.

8 years ago

The two wells drilled on Bryan Latkanich’s property are among 1,655 that have been hydraulically fractured in Washington County since 2004. Latkanich is one of more than 4,000 Pennsylvania residents who have filed complaints with DEP, wondering if gas drilling impacted their water. Only 284 cases have been linked. (CREDIT: ANNA BELLE PEEVEY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Special report: How the U.S. government hid fracking’s risks to drinking water

8 years ago

Construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

After recent Mariner East 2 spills, DEP mulls ‘additional enforcement’

8 years ago

A truck delivers fracking wastewater to a Susquehanna County recycling center
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Lycoming County Waste Water Spill Tops 63,000 Gallons

8 years ago

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