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Science
Researchers confront a ‘line-in-the-sand’ moment for drug-resistant bacteria
Globally, antibiotic-resistant bacteria are becoming an increasing problem. The Wistar Institute convened researchers to discuss alternative treatments.
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What is race? It isn’t skin color, as some young people are learning
It’s a tough question: Why do we look different? As one high school’s syllabus puts it, race is “both a biological myth and a social reality.”
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Listen 5:50The chemical that could have killed millions in the Philly refinery fire
Hydroflouric acid is a toxic chemical used in local refineries. Why a release during the recent South Philly refinery explosion would have been disastrous.
Air Date: July 30, 2019
Listen 15:27Wine grapes grow again in Israel’s Negev desert
Using desert-taming techniques the ancients mastered, a region of Israel sees vineyards flourish.
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Listen 05:40Air Date: July 26, 2019
Listen 49:39Fireball that streaked across sky ‘lit up the whole beach,’ eyewitness says
As of 1 p.m. on Thursday, more than 360 spotters reported seeing a fireball across portions of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast.
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Counting Alberta’s grizzlies: Are they recovering or still threatened?
Where one Canadian team works, there are rugged mountain peaks, foothills and vast meadows, as well as towns and farmland. How many bears live here?
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Listen 08:43Nostalgia means everything old can be new again. In the brain, memory meets emotion to make us feel good (mostly) — and sometimes like spending money.
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Listen 08:00Eastern U.S. cities spewing 9 times more methane into air than thought
Older U.S. east coast cities are leaking nine times as much natural gas into the air — from homes or pipes heading into houses — than the federal government had thought.
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This rare butterfly has found refuge at an unlikely place: A Pennsylvania military base
The regal fritillary, a rare butterfly that’s nearly disappeared from the eastern United States, has found refuge in a surprising place — a National Guard training center.
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Focused ultrasound treats tremors from Parkinson’s disease
The FDA recently approved a procedure to ease the trembling caused by Parkinson’s that doesn’t involve invasive surgery and cutting into a patient’s head.
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Listen 2:0250 years after Apollo 11, here’s what (and how) astronauts are eating
Ever since astronaut John Glenn's first bite of applesauce in 1962, eating in space has been a challenge.
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Hollywood shoots the moon: 117 years of lunar landings at the movies
Motion pictures went to the moon long before Apollo 11 did, and they keep going back.
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Meet John Houbolt: He figured out how to go to the moon, but few were listening
In the early 1960s, NASA was considering different ideas for landing a man on the lunar surface. Houbolt's plan ultimately won despite concerns within NASA that it was risky.
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Environmental organization deploys 1 million oysters at N.J. ‘living shoreline’
An environmental organization and the U.S. Navy teamed up Tuesday to deploy one million oysters at a "living shoreline" at Naval Weapons Station Earle on the Jersey coast.
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