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A total lunar eclipse graces the night skies during the first blood moon of the year, in Brasilia, Brazil, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (Eraldo Peres/AP)
NPR
Outdoors
Space

A total lunar eclipse is happening Tuesday — and it won’t happen again for 3 years

A total lunar eclipse happens when the moon falls completely in the Earth's shadow.

4 years ago

The Rehoboth Bay oyster farm helps to clean the water and thus diversity in the bay is increasing. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment
Outdoors
Sustainability

What does sustainable aquaculture look like in Delaware’s Rehoboth Bay?

Delaware State University researchers have been working since 2019 when Delaware became the last East Coast state to allow aquaculture.

4 years ago

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Radio Times
Books
Environment
Outdoors

Bonus Episode: Finding the Mother Tree

In this bonus episode, we talk about the social lives of old trees in the forest and research that has changed our understanding of trees and forest ecology.

Air Date: October 29, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Bram Stoker's tale of Count Dracula turns 125 this year.
Radio Times
Books
History
Medicine
Philadelphia

Vampire panic and the undying legacy of ‘Dracula’

Bram Stoker's tale of Count Dracula turns 125 this year. A look at the famous literature, its author, and the vampire panic in the 19th century spurred by deadly Tuberculosis.

Air Date: October 28, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Dark ghostly figure in a doorway in abandoned room. Sepia toned, 3D digital illustration
The Pulse

Thrills & Chills: The Psychology of Fear

It’s that time of year when we celebrate something we usually hate: fear. We visit haunted houses and corn mazes or binge-watch the sca ...

Air Date: October 28, 2022

Listen 48:17
The Allied Relief Fund of America, which has supplied the Allies with many valuable gifts of hospital equipment, is presenting Britain with a number of valuable x-ray installations. Sir Harold Gillies, the famous surgeon, and Dr. Cochrane Shanks, chief radiologist to the Ministry of Health accepted this gift formally at Brookwood House, Basingstoke, and thanked Bertram Cruger, representative of the fund, warmly. Dr. Cochrane Shanks using the £10,000 x-ray apparatus on a patient in England  July 19, 1940. (AP Photo)
Radio Times
Innovation
Medicine
Military

Bonus Interview: Plastic surgery, war survivors and a visionary doctor

From the archives, our interview with Lindsey Fitzharris, author of 'The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I.'

Air Date: October 22, 2022 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
Looking out over the grasslands of the Pantanal in Brazil
The Pulse

Why Grasslands Are Worth Saving

There’s a lot to love about grasslands — the sound of the wind blowing through them, the way the colors change with the seasons, how ...

Air Date: October 21, 2022

Listen 49:23
A cheetah runs inside a quarantine section before being relocated to India. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
The Pulse
Animals
Environment

Can the cheetah help save India’s grasslands?

Cheetahs were declared extinct 70 years ago in India. Ecologists hope its reintroduction will boost efforts to preserve the country's vast grasslands.

4 years ago

Listen 10:41
Road workers applying hot red road marking paint on new build road
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

Listen 50:23
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.

4 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

Listen 49:29
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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 years ago

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