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Science

Close up on dilated pupil. (Courtesy of Big Stock Image)
The Pulse
Biology
Technology

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.

4 years ago

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High-voltage electric transmission lines pass through a wind farm.
Energy
Innovation
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Nation’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.

4 years ago

Metal caps marked ''WATER'' are the only evidence of the 400-foot wells beneath the parking lot of the German Society of Pennsylvania on Spring Garden Street. The wells tap the geothermal energy of the earth to heat and cool the society's building. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment

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.

4 years ago

Listen 7:19
Flooding in French Settlement, La
NPR
Environment
Infrastructure
Race & Ethnicity
Sustainability

Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds

Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm.

4 years ago

Horseshoe crabs are pictured on a beach
Animals
Delaware
Preservation
Sustainability

Atlantic 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.

4 years ago

An American Eagle passenger flight lands at Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, Wed., Jan. 19, 2022. The airline industry is raising the stakes in a showdown with AT&T and Verizon over plans to launch new 5G wireless service this week, warning that thousands of flights could be grounded or delayed if the rollout takes place near major airports
NPR
National
Transportation
Travel

5G cleared for takeoff near more airports, but some regional jets might be grounded

4 years ago

The Wistar Institute will use the grant funds for its apprenticeship programs. (6abc)
Biology
Employment
Philadelphia
Technology

Philadelphia biomedical research firm granted $250K for workforce training

Officials said the funds will help address the critical need to boost a skilled labor force in Philadelphia as the life sciences industry grows.

4 years ago

Sandy Khabbazeh makes a pot of Syrian coffee
NPR
Environment

Gas stoves leak climate-warming methane even when they’re off

A new study finds tiny leaks from loose fittings added up to more emissions than when stoves were in use. The impact amounts to the same effect as a half-million cars.

4 years ago

Thousands of people rally at Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles, part of the nationwide March for Science, taking place Saturday, April 22, 2017. They chanted
Environment
Government Accountability
Politics

Americans’ trust in science now deeply polarized, poll shows

Republicans' faith in science is falling as Democrats rely on it even more, with a trust gap in science and medicine widening substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

4 years ago

Horseshoe crabs are pictured on a beach
Animals
Delaware
Environment
Sustainability

Controversial proposal would lift limits on horseshoe crab harvesting in the Delaware Bay

Conservationists are concerned the plan would lead to overharvesting, and threaten the endangered red knot bird, which relies on horseshoe crab eggs for sustenance.

4 years ago

Radio Times
Animals
Biology

Animal rituals and elephant evolution

Elephant researcher Caitlin O'Connell on "Wild Rituals: 10 Lessons Animals Can Teach Us About Connection, Community, and ourselves" and tuskless elephant evolution.

Air Date: January 25, 2022 10:00 am

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Fruit-eating animals spread the seeds of plants in ecosystems around the world. Their decline means plants could have a harder time finding new habitats as the climate changes. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/AFP via Getty Images)
NPR
Animals
Environment

To get by in a changing climate, plants need animal poop to carry them to safety

Poop – or more specifically the digestion time of animals – is crucial to the survival of plants around the globe, especially as the climate gets hotter.

4 years ago

A spotted lanternfly is seen in a bush in Dauphin County on Sept. 7, 2021. (Rachel McDevitt / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Animals
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Penn State researchers aim to debunk myths surrounding spotted lanternfly

Some misconceptions about the spotted lanternfly came as a result of misunderstandings about the bug soon after it was discovered in Berks County in 2014.

4 years ago

Vehicles are under water during flooding in a Philly parking lot
NPR
Environment
Public Health

Extreme weather in the U.S. cost 688 lives and $145 billion last year, NOAA says

In an on overview published ahead of its full report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that 2021 ranked the third costliest on record for such events.

4 years ago

File photo: In this April 13, 2017 photo provided by NASA, technicians lift the mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope using a crane at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (Laura Betz/NASA via AP, File)
NPR
Space
Technology

NASA’s James Webb telescope completes its final unfolding in space

Considered the most powerful telescope in space, It will still be five months before NASA can start receiving its images.

4 years ago

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