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The Pulse
Streets & Roads

Designing Safer Streets

In the early days of the pandemic, life on the streets changed. Traffic was clear, and the roads felt nearly deserted. Bumper-to-bumper c ...

Air Date: October 14, 2022

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Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by the DART spacecraft 11 seconds before impact. (NASA/Johns Hopkins APL)
NPR
National
Space

NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success

NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.

3 years ago

David Quammen tells the story of the worldwide scientific quest to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.
Radio Times
Books
Health Care
Innovation

The scientific race to defeat a deadly virus

'Breathless' tells the story of the worldwide scientific quest to understand and trace the origins of Covid-19 and develop treatments to fight the deadly virus.

Air Date: October 11, 2022 10:00 am

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Brandywine Creek in Wilmington. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment
Outdoors

Environmental advocates, scientists want federal protection for Red Clay, Brandywine, creeks in northern Delaware

The University of Delaware and others are proposing that Brandywine Creek and Red Clay Creek join the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

3 years ago

People take pictures and videos of the Boston Dynamics robot Spot during an event in Lisbon in 2019. (Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Technology

Some leading robot makers are pledging not to weaponize them

Boston Dynamics and five other robotics companies have signed an open letter saying what many of us were already nervously hoping for anyway.

3 years ago

K. Barry Sharpless points to a sample used in his work, as he stands on the balcony outside of his home office
International
Philadelphia

Philly native among 3 chemists awarded Nobel Prize

Sharpless, a Philadelphia native who attended the Friends Central School, previously won a Nobel Prize in 2001 and is now the fifth person to receive the award twice.

3 years ago

This illustration shows the DART spacecraft approaching the two asteroids, Didymos and Dimorphos, with a small observing spacecraft nearby. (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben)
NPR
Space
Technology

Move over, Bruce Willis: NASA crashed into an asteroid to test planetary defense

In images streamed as the impact neared, the egg-shaped asteroid, called Dimorphos, grew in size from a blip on screen to have its full rocky surface come quickly into focus.

3 years ago

The contaminated Bishop Tube former industrial site in Malvern
Environment
Pennsylvania

DEP plan to clean up Bishop Tube site contamination draws criticism from environmentalists

Environmental advocates are speaking out against a Pa. DEP plan to clean up decades-old contamination at the site of the former Bishop Tube facility in East Whiteland Township

3 years ago

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Adult Humpback Whale breaching of the Coast of Cabo San Lucas on 15 February 2009.
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The Pulse

A Journey into the Minds of Whales

Tom Mustill was sure he was going to die — that was the last thing he thought as he watched a humpback whale arc majestically out of th ...

Air Date: September 16, 2022

Listen 48:36
A black-and-white photo of President Kennedy speaking in the midst of a large crowd.
NPR
Government
National
Space
Technology

How space exploration has changed, 60 years since JFK’s ‘We Choose the Moon’ speech

On the anniversary of President Kennedy's speech on the race to the moon, we look at dramatic advances in U.S. space science, from commercial flights to the Webb telescope.

3 years ago

orangutang in Close-up Photography
The Pulse
Animals
Biology
Environment

The Fight Against Extinction

Around the world, at dawn, something magical happens. As the sun rises, nature seems to wake up, and different species break into a choru ...

Air Date: September 9, 2022

Listen 48:35
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist is published by W.W. Norton and Company. Photo by Catherine Marin.
Radio Times
Animals
Biology
Gender

Gender roles, primates and Frans de Waal

In his latest book, primatologist Frans de Waal asks the question, "What can the world of apes and monkeys teach us about gender, sex and biology?

Air Date: September 6, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:29
NASA's new moon rocket sits on Launch Pad 39-B hours ahead of a planned launch at the Kennedy Space Center Saturday, Sept. 3, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Fla. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via AP)
National
Space
Technology

Fuel leak ruins NASA’s 2nd shot at launching moon rocket

NASA has called off its second launch attempt for its new moon rocket because of yet another fuel leak.

3 years ago

Moiya McTier is the author of The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy. (photo/Mindy Tucker)
Radio Times
Books
Space
Technology

An autobiography of the Milky Way

A new book is written from the witty, sharp, sometimes self-indulgent perspective of our Milky Way galaxy, detailing what it's like to look down on tiny planet Earth.

Air Date: August 30, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Astronaut Charlie M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, is photographed collecting lunar samples during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity at the Descartes landing site. (John W. Young/NASA)
NPR
National
Space

NASA is set to return to the moon. Here are 4 reasons to go back

NASA's Apollo missions already sent astronauts to the moon from 1969 to 1972. But scientists say there's still lots of good science to do there.

3 years ago

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