
Science
18 years ago today, Tropical Storm Floyd dumped excessive rainfall, spurring record flooding
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With help from Drexel prof, snow-melting concrete may someday clear wintry roads
Winter is coming, and that means snow and ice on the roads — and scattering salt and de-icing chemicals. But a researcher at Dre ...
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Philly offers training on overdose rescues
The City of Philadelphia is holding several free ...
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Leftover painkillers driving opioid crisis, Penn researcher says
A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania says one of the big narratives explaining the onset of the opioid crisis is wrong.&n ...
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Forecasters continue to monitor Jose on track near East Coast
Forecasters say Hurricane Jose might spur coastal flooding and gusty winds at the Jersey Shore early next week. While most g ...
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Pinelands Commission approves South Jersey pipeline, construction could begin soon
A New Jersey agency approved a contentious natural gas pipeline Thursday that would run through the Pinelands, a one million-acre nature ...
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Scientists: Ash tree species pushed to brink of extinction
Five prominent species of ash tree in the eastern U.S. have been driven to the brink of extinction from years of lethal attack by a beetl ...
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Hurricane Jose: Separating fact from hype
Social media hype is already beginning about Hurricane Jose’s potential threat to the United States’ East Coast in less than ...
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Restoring buffalo to the landscape
Robbie Magnan of the Fort Peck Tribes is pushing to bring back America’s bison herds. At one point, there were 50 million wi ...
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ListenThe age-old quest to preserve native languages
Understanding and teaching the languages of tribes. Thomas Jefferson was convinced that the languages of native tribes in North Am ...
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ListenThe art of preserving and fixing rare books
Mindell Dubansky has been repairing and taking care of books for 35 years. Mindell Dubansky once slapped someone’s hand for ...
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ListenDigging for clues from the past in historic remains
What started as a box of bones has turned into a massive undertaking. In Philadelphia, just a stone’s throw from the Liberty ...
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