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Travelers walk and check their flight information in Terminal 3 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in December
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Commercial airliners had their safest year ever, flight trackers say

There were no fatalities on commercial passenger jets in 2017, according to two groups that track airplane crash data, making it the safest year in modern aviation history.

9 years ago

The Delaware River basin: Officials say proposed new rules would strengthen protections against contamination from any fracking waste water brought into the basin. (KATIE COLANERI/STATEIMPACT PENNSYLVANIA)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
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Pennsylvania

DRBC’s new rule would protect against frack-waste contamination, officials say

9 years ago

Careful custody of blood tests and tissue samples is essential to the success of precision medicine. (David Silverman/Getty Images)
NPR
Innovation

Precision medical treatments have a quality control problem

Careful custody of blood tests and tissue samples is essential to the success of precision medicine.

9 years ago

Volunteer Greg Ruegsegger is outfitted with monitors, a catheter threaded into a vein and a mask to capture his breath in an experiment run by Joyner to measure human performance. (Richard Harris/NPR)
NPR
Innovation

Will gathering vast troves of information really lead to better health?

The Mayo Clinic is building its future around high-tech approaches to research known as "precision medicine."

9 years ago

Washington County resident Frank Brownlee stands in his backyard, where a rig on the hill behind him is drilling natural gas wells. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s gas fields ramp up for more drilling in 2018

The site of some of the state’s newest gas wells lies atop a Washington County hill in Frank Brownlee’s backyard.

9 years ago

Professional poker player Jason Les sits in front of a computer and tries to beat an A.I. at the game.
Pennsylvania
Technology

Poker-winning AI might soon help consumers call companies’ bluff

Computer scientists say the artificial intelligence could be used for everything from getting cheaper plane tickets to cybersecurity.

9 years ago

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Space

New Year’s Revolutions

Dr. Pitts and Dave Heller recap their top astronomy stories of 2017: Astronomers were elated this year when the three operational g ...

Air Date: December 29, 2017

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Chiemela Ohanele, Adoma Boateng and AnnaClaire Osei Akoto, all juniors at the University of Pennsylvania, are designing a hands-on course on water, sanitation, and hygiene. (UPenn)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Environment

UPenn students take on peace, water, and climate

One way to learn about climate change is to read about it. Another way is to experience it firsthand.

9 years ago

A natural gas well site operates in southwestern Pennsylvania. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

CNX Gas fined more than $400,000 for drilling violations

The penalties stem from incidents at four well sites that affected waterways and vegetation, according to the DEP.

9 years ago

Portland Generating Station
Energy
Environment
New Jersey

Pa. coal power plant closing leads to healthier babies downwind

After a coal-fired power plant in Pennsylvania closed, early-life health outcomes improved for babies across the border, in New Jersey.

9 years ago

StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

US Steel agrees to allow fracking at Edgar Thompson works steel mill

9 years ago

A swan swims in Barnegat Bay in Toms River, N.J.
Environment
New Jersey

Barnegat Bay marshes help keep water clean

Much of the tidal marshland in New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay has been destroyed, but the remaining 26,000 acres provide important filtering for the ecosystem.

9 years ago

This photo shows Dominion Resources Cove Point terminal in Maryland. It has completed its conversion from a gas import facility to an export terminal to ship Marcellus Shale gas to Asia. In December, it received its first natural gas shipment, which will need to be liquefied before being loaded onto a tanker.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment

Dominion’s Cove Point plant preparing to export LNG

9 years ago

A backhoe clears land for construction of the Mariner East 2 pipeline in Delaware County in early 2017. (Emily Cohen)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Top 10 things you need to know about Mariner East 2

9 years ago

A view of the mobile homes at the former Penn State mobile home park in State College, Pennsylvania. (Image by Google street view from June 2012)
Allegheny Front

From Coal Town to Trail Town

9 years ago

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