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Space

Don’t Miss the Harvest Moon Eclipse

Autumn officially arrives Wednesday; at 4:21 am, Earth arrives at that point in its orbit where the rotational axis is in a position that ...

Air Date: September 21, 2015

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 Mark Friedman from the Philadelphia startup dlux makes his pitch during the Aging 2.0 event at North Bowl. (Todd Bookman/WHYY)

Age of enlightenment dawns for tech firms focusing on senior services

The target demographic for technology companies felt decidedly gray for a while Thursday. Entrepreneurs mingled with assisted-livi ...

10 years ago

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Bid Adieu to Summer 2015

This is the last week of summer. Autumn arrives next Wednesday. NASA’s New Horizons is en route to a 35 mile-wide iceball on ...

Air Date: September 14, 2015

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Ponds surround empty oil tanks at Petty's Island on the Delaware River.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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Exploring urban islands: from natural to developed

Islands on Pennsylvania’s waterways are often overlooked, difficult to access or seen as liabilities, but some people are trying to change that.

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Alice De Tiberge's ranch home in Pennington is powered by solar panels and and a system that stores excess energy as hydrogen for use when sunlight is weak. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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New Jersey inventor unveils ‘affordable’ hydrogen-solar home

A New Jersey inventor unveiled Friday what he is calling the first fully-permitted and affordable house powered by solar and hydrogen in ...

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Space

Itty Bitty Black Hole Discovered

Along with the great visibility of Venus and Mars in the pre-dawn sky and Saturn in the evening, the big event this week is something we ...

Air Date: September 8, 2015

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Frenzy of creativity comes to a close as Olympics of student hacking winds up

After 36 hours of near nonstop coding, the world’s largest student hackathon will wrap up Sunday in South Philadelphia. ...

10 years ago

 A new PennDOT website lays out road and bridge projects throughout the state.

PennDOT maps out road construction work on new website

If you’re struggling to keep track of Pennsylvania’s 985 active road construction projects, you can finally rest easy. ...

10 years ago

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Space

Name It & Claim It

20 planets beyond our solar system need names. . . . and the public is invited to give its thumbs-up or down to proposals. Results will b ...

Air Date: August 31, 2015

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Space

True or False; False

On August 27th , Mars will appear as large as the full moon. Don’t believe this hoax; It could happen BUT if it does, we have a lot ...

Air Date: August 24, 2015

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Kayakers on the Schuylkill (Jessica Kourkounis)
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Pennsylvania

[Video] Fast trip down the Schuylkill River to Philly

Recently, about a hundred hardy souls paddled down the Schuylkill River, from the quiet banks of Schuylkill Haven to the skyscrapers of P ...

10 years ago

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It’s Been a Dog Day’s Night!

There’s a great International Space Station pass tonight northwest over to the west; 8:51 to 8:58, but it’ll blink out of sig ...

Air Date: August 17, 2015

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Perseid Peaking

Perseid Meteor Shower peaks this week. – Weds night, Thurs night, Fri night. No moon this year, so it should be much easier to obse ...

Air Date: August 10, 2015

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 AOL founder Steve Case on a 'Rise of the Rest' bus tour stop in Atlanta, Ga., in May 2015 (Image via Rise of the Rest/Flicker)

AOL founder Steve Case bringing entrepreneur bus tour to Philly in September

Steve Case is coming to Philadelphia — and bringing his money — in search of promising start-ups. The billionaire co-founder o ...

10 years ago

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Here Comes the Sun(s)

A quintuple star system is discovered in the constellation Ursa Major. Multiple systems are not unusual, in fact most stars are mu ...

Air Date: August 3, 2015

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