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Trump’s U.N. address; Dinosaurs and prehistoric fish

Guests: Ed Luce, Kenneth Lacovara, Ted Daeschler Digging up 350 million year old fish fossils in Antarctica and ...

Air Date: September 20, 2017

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Environment
Space

Say Goodbye to Summer

Dave and Dr. Pitts count down the final days of summer as the Autumnal Equinox approaches. Expect shorter days ahead and dwindling daylig ...

Air Date: September 19, 2017

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Beth Beverly works in her studio where she makes hats, jewelry and home decor items with parts of dead animals. (Paige Pfleger/WHYY)
The Pulse

The secret afterlife of pets

Beth Beverly’s basement looks like a workshop – with a twist. A meat hook dangles from the ceiling. A head mount of a ...

8 years ago

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The Large Hadron Collider is a particle accelerator that made headlines in 2012 after scientists found a new particle, and won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2013. That experiment is one of many in physics that rely on liquid helium to function. (Maximilien Brice/CERN)
The Pulse

Recovering and recycling a critical chemical in research

Some physicists are leaving their field because of rising helium prices. A few years ago, Sophia Hayes, a chemist at Washington Un ...

8 years ago

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Down the Shore
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New Jersey
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Tropical Storm Watch in effect for the Jersey Shore

The Jersey Shore might experience some impacts from Hurricane Jose, a cyclone that forecasters expect to pass offshore Tuesday into Wedne ...

8 years ago

Route 18 in New Brunswick. (Image: Shaun Baines/NOAA)
Down the Shore
Environment
History
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18 years ago today, Tropical Storm Floyd dumped excessive rainfall, spurring record flooding

Tropical Storm&n ...

8 years ago

 Slippery West Sedgwick Street in Northwest Philadelphia after a winter storm. (Bas Slabbers for NewsWorks, file)
Streets & Roads
Technology

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 ...

8 years ago

Packages containing a nasal inhalant
Medicine
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly offers training on overdose rescues

The City of Philadelphia is holding several free ...

8 years ago

 A panel of professors at the University of Pennsylvania discuss the opioid addiction epidemic. They are (from left) dental surgeon Elliot Hersh, psychiatrist Kyle Kampman, registered nurse Peggy Compton, chemist Jeffrey Saven and veterinarian Mary Robinson. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Medicine
Public Health

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 ...

8 years ago

 Hurricane Jose as seen on NOAA's infrared satellite early Friday afternoon.
Down the Shore
Environment

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 ...

8 years ago

 Protesters armed with signs fill the bleachers at Pine Belt Arena in Toms River, where the New Jersey Pinelands Commission held a public hearing on a proposed natural gas pipeline through Burlington and Ocean counties. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

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 ...

8 years ago

 Emerald ash borer (NewsWorks file photo)
Environment

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 ...

8 years ago

A view of the Delaware River from Morrisville, Pa. The Delaware River Basin Commission voted Wednesday on a resolution that could result in a ban on fracking in the Basin.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

DRBC takes a step toward banning fracking in Northeast Pa.

8 years ago

In 2015 Wolf met with elected officials and landowners from Wayne County to discuss the moratorium on natural gas development in the Delaware River Basin. Several people in the meeting say he offered to help them open up the region to drilling, if they would help him enact a severance tax.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Landowners: Wolf suggested opening Delaware River Basin to gas drilling in 2015

8 years ago

Dan Plummer fishes for trout in the Delaware River, Delaware County New York. The Delaware River Basin Commission has proposed a ban on fracking along the river.
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Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

DRBC confirms it will consider banning fracking in basin

8 years ago

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