
Science
Panic over big spiders possibly migrating to Delaware is ‘just hype,’ researcher says
It’s the worst nightmare for someone with arachnophobia. Giant spiders the size of your palm could soon call parts of the Delaware Valley home.
3 years ago
Taking the first steps toward firm PFAS limits for drinking water in Pennsylvania and Delaware
Federal law gives the states authority. New Jersey already has enforceable maximum contaminant levels for specific types of the toxic chemicals.
3 years ago
Listen 2:19It’s when a dark alleyway makes the hairs stand up on the back of our neck; when a mother just knows that something’s wrong ...
Air Date: March 4, 2022
Listen 49:14Switch to electric buildings or miss climate goals, N.J. advocates say
The analysis calls on the state to step up efforts to transition buildings to electric power and to end heating homes with natural gas and other fossil fuels.
3 years ago
Landmark UN climate change report: ‘Parts of the planet will become uninhabitable’
The U.N. report warns climate change will likely make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and more dangerous in the next 18 years with an “unavoidable” increase in risks.
3 years ago
The human brain has an incredible capacity for processing information, from sensory data, to casual conversations, to everything we hear ...
Air Date: February 25, 2022
Listen 47:43As wildfires worsen globally, governments are unprepared, UN warns
The western U.S. is already seeing more blazes, and the likelihood of catastrophic wildfires globally could increase more than 50% by the turn of the century.
3 years ago
How Science is Changing Sports
Science is constantly propelling athletes to run faster, jump higher, push harder, and break records. Scientific advances have become suc ...
Air Date: February 18, 2022
Listen 48:55A West Philly couple wrote a children’s book to help parents have ‘The Climate Talk’
Lena Champlin, Jeremy Wortzel, and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry wrote a children’s book about climate change and anxiety.
3 years ago
Listen 2:02U.S. could see a century’s worth of sea rise in just 30 years
A federal report warns that America's coasts will be hit hard by ever faster sea level rise between now and the year 2050.
3 years ago
Trenton receives $5 million grant to make MOVES for residents
The City of Trenton is getting a $5 million grant from the state to begin planning a transit system to help a majority of its residents who either have one car or no car.
3 years ago
How TikTok’s pupil test works, and what it tells us about love and attraction
A TikTok trend that claims to test if you’re really in love may have some real science behind it.
3 years ago
Listen 6:21Nation’s largest power grid moves to clear logjam of energy projects
If the solar projects held up in the logjam are not cleared, that jeopardizes New Jersey’s own efforts to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
3 years ago
Geothermal energy lies right beneath our feet. Could Philadelphia tap into it?
Philadelphia’s decarbonization goals run right up against PGW, the gas utility it owns. Some say the solution lies below the city.
3 years ago
Listen 7:19Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission advances move to harvest female horseshoe crabs
The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs.
3 years ago