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Science

Paintings by Diane Burko show climate change data in a painting form.
Environment
Visual Arts

Philly exhibit highlights how art can move the needle in public perception of climate change

A recent study shows fine art can more effectively communicate climate change than data visualization.

3 years ago

A woman uses an umbrella for protection from the sun in Juniata Park
PlanPhilly
Environment
Infrastructure
Philadelphia
Public Health

Philly’s summer has been wetter than normal. So what’s with the drought watch?

Drought declarations are not just based on rain. They also consider soil moisture, stream flow, and groundwater, which tends to lag behind rain.

3 years ago

An up-close view of water flowing from a water fountain.
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Philadelphia region among hotspots for PFAS in tap water, study finds

The USGS study is the first to evaluate PFAS in both public and private drinking water nationwide.

3 years ago

A view of a boat with a sign that reads OceanGate.
NPR
Business
Technology

OceanGate suspends its commercial and exploration operations after Titan implosion

OceanGate did not offer additional details about pausing its operations. Its CEO, Stockton Rush, was among the five people killed when the company's submersible imploded.

3 years ago

The Flower Moon is seen through trees in May 2021 in Amesbury, United Kingdom.
NPR
National
Outdoors
Space

The first supermoon of the year will light up the night sky Monday evening

Monday's moon is a so-called supermoon because it will be both full and located close to Earth on its elliptical orbit around our planet.

3 years ago

The Pulse

Degrees of Freedom

We’ll look at freedom from different perspectives.

Air Date: June 30, 2023

Listen 49:00
Idaho National Laboratory builds and tests nuclear reactors that are often housed in silver domes in the high desert area. (Susan Phillips/WHYY)
The Pulse
Energy
Technology

Will climate change force the future of nuclear energy to look smaller and more mobile?

A new microreactor being developed at the Idaho National Laboratory will be small enough to put on a tractor trailer and nimble enough to send to a disaster site.

3 years ago

Listen 8:05
In a photo from the Papers of J. Hartley Bowen Jr. at the Science History Museum, workers load a barrel of contaminated waste into a B-17 aircraft. (The Papers of J. Hartley Bowen Jr. at the Science History Museum)
The Pulse
Government Accountability
Pennsylvania

A secret mission to dump radioactive cargo in Atlantic Ocean tells history of nuclear tests

Answer to decades-long mystery uncovered in the archive at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia.

3 years ago

Listen 16:09
A worker stencils the destination on to fuel storage module at Holtec International in Camden. This one is headed for D.C. Cook Nuclear Plant in Michigan. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Energy

Where can the U.S. put 88,000 tons of nuclear waste?

While the U.S. struggles to build long-term storage for nuclear waste, other countries like Sweden, Finland, and Canada move forward with plans for geologic repositories.

3 years ago

Listen 10:51
A lobsterman paddles out to his boat in a harbor in Maine.
NPR
Environment
National
Outdoors
Sustainability

This fishing gear can help save whales. What will it take for fishermen to use it?

Fishing grounds are being closed, but new technology could help avoid that.

3 years ago

A worker drives cart through a tunnel inside a radioactive waste storage facility in New Mexico. The underground repository was created to house nuclear waste created by decades of research and bomb-making. (AP Photo/Eric Draper, File)
The Pulse

Buried Secrets, Buried Waste

We unfold the never-before-told story of Earle and the classified operation that he was a part of, and explore the remnants of the atomic age and the waste it has left behind.

Air Date: June 23, 2023

Listen 49:28
wind farm in Atlantic City
Delaware
Energy
Environment
Government

Delaware lawmakers want state to assess offshore wind potential

The legislation would direct DNREC to evaluate the potential benefits and roadblocks of offshore wind.

3 years ago

Listen 1:15
A view of a car driving away from the Homer City Generating Station.
Business
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania’s largest coal plant to shut down

Homer City Generating Station will shut down by July due to competition from cheap natural gas and pollution upgrade costs. The plant was a major air polluter in its heyday.

3 years ago

Roger Payne attends the Raw for the Oceans Spring/Summer 2015 collection show presented by G-Star RAW and Bionic during Fashion Week on Friday, Sept. 5, 2014 in New York
Animals
Biology
Environment

Roger Payne, scientist who discovered whales can sing, dies at 88

Payne saw the discovery of whale song as a chance to spur interest in saving the giant animals, who were disappearing from the planet.

3 years ago

The ChatGPT app
Innovation
Technology

How Europe is leading the world in the push to regulate AI

Lawmakers in Europe have signed off on the world’s first set of comprehensive rules for artificial intelligence.

3 years ago

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