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Philly mayoral candidates talk tech
Candidates for mayor of Philadelphia are promising four more years of open, data-driven governance. Speaking to a crowd at Philly ...
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Come One, Come All: No Telescope Needed
Friday marks the 5th Annual city-wide Astronomy Night, which is the first event of the 2015 Philadelphia Science Festival. Commun ...
Air Date: April 20, 2015
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A digital reboot of humanities at U of Penn
The University of Pennsylvania is rebooting one of its most tradition-bound departments. The recently announced Price Lab for the ...
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Rings, Centaurs, and Known Science
Four planets of our solar system have rings – Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. Astronomers can now identify at least two non-pl ...
Air Date: April 13, 2015
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Seventh- and eighth-graders at Alexander Adaire School in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood are getting an extra education in co ...
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Newly discovered dwarf galaxies orbiting our Milky Way may offer opportunities to gain insight about so-called dark matter (the invisible ...
Air Date: April 6, 2015
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Fastest star in the west (or east, north and south)
US 708 now holds the speed record for extragalactic stars: 2.7 million miles/hour! In this case it’s thought the velocity was provi ...
Air Date: March 30, 2015
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NASA Success Story Celebrates Silver Anniversary
Tomorrow marks the 25th year of Hubble Space Telescope operations. It has provided hundreds of thousands of images, identified quasars, d ...
Air Date: March 23, 2015
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Water, Water (Almost) Everywhere
– A total solar eclipse is available to be seen – if you’re willing to travel . . . and if you’re willing to chan ...
Air Date: March 16, 2015
ListenGenetic test maker 23andMe launches drug R&D effort
Google-backed genetic testing company 23andMe is launching its own drug development unit, betting that it can translate its database of c ...
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Google’s safe browsing system targets ‘unwanted software’
Get ready to see more red warning signs online as Google adds ammunition to its technological artillery for targeting devious schemes lur ...
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Meetings at The Jet Propulsion Lab last week indicate that a major reason why NASA is pursuing landing on Mars is to protect human existe ...
Air Date: March 9, 2015
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The science of wind tunnels – where and why those harsh winds strike
You may have noticed while walking through Philadelphia that certain spots are windier than others – so much so, that in a split second ...
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Spring Ahead: Spring…or No Spring
Clocks go forward one hour to Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Day length is now 11h20m with sunrise at 6:32 and sunset at 5 ...
Air Date: March 2, 2015
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Busy ramp-up at International Space Station; both Russian and SpaceX Dragon resupply craft made deliveries recently in ...
Air Date: February 23, 2015
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