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Canadian glaciologist Roy (Fritz) Koerner working on a glacier in April, 1983. (Image courtesy of Mark Serreze)
The Pulse
Environment

Looking for climate change answers in the melting north

As Arctic ice caps warmed, scientists — believers and skeptics — came together to seek answers.

7 years ago

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Chris Bolden-Newsome puts new seedlings into a row. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
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Indigenous traditions get science backing

Scientists are learning from farmers and traditional healers — and documenting what powers their success.

7 years ago

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An Alewife Mussel expells its larva, known as Glochidia, which looks like a combination of air bubbles and cloudy milk. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Environment
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With nation’s first city-owned mussel hatchery, Philly employing bivalves in battle to improve water quality

Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when w ...

7 years ago

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(photo credit/Henry Throop)
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New Horizons: NASA’s mission to Pluto

Guests: Alan Stern, David Grinspoon NASA’s New Horizons spaceship launched in 2006 to visit tiny Pluto at edge ...

Air Date: May 2, 2018 10:00 am

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Skytalk
Space

The Color Purple

Newly discovered? A purple planet! Actually, the color suggestion is just speculation based on the planet’s expected chemical compo ...

Air Date: April 30, 2018

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FILE PHOTO: This Nov. 10, 2016 aerial photo released by NASA, shows a rift in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf. (JOHN SONNTAG/NASA VIA AP)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Environment

Penn State researchers join international effort to study Antarctic ‘doomsday’ glacier

7 years ago

Researchers found that stimulating a specific region of mice’s brains called the entorhinal cortex decreased their symptoms of depression.(Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo, file)
Innovation
Mental Health

To treat depression when drugs fail, CHOP researchers begin search for solutions in mice brains

Researchers found that stimulating a specific region of mice’s brains called the entorhinal cortex decreased their symptoms of depression.

7 years ago

Bears in Pennsylvania are struggling with mange they can't seem to kick. (Brandon Wade/AP Images for The Humane Society of the United States)
Environment

Scientists mobilize to account for rise in mange among Pa. bears

Bears in Pennsylvania are struggling with mange they can't seem to kick. Scientists are studying what's unique about the disease in the state.

7 years ago

X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), taken by NASA's NuSTAR. The field of view covers the west limb of the sun.
Skytalk
Space

On the Prowl for Solar Siblings

Our sun, like so many others, was born as part of a cluster of stars. Sibling stars have the same chemical composition and can be discove ...

Air Date: April 24, 2018

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A panel talk on Philadelphia's opioid crisis featured (from left) Maiken Scott, moderator and host of WHYY's The Pulse; Michael McMahon, district attorney of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York; Cynthia Reilly, director of Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative; Evan Behrle, special adviser for opioid policy at Baltimore City's Health Department; Thomas Farley, Philadelphia's health commissioner. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Addiction
Philadelphia

Philly is ‘floating on opioids’: Civic leaders address drug crisis, share solutions

Philadelphia is wrestling with one of the nation’s highest overdose death rates amid a drug crisis that does not appear to be letting up.

7 years ago

A customer adds mustard to corn dogs at Fox and Son at Reading Terminal Market. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Food & Drink
Philadelphia

Lots of thought for food at ’18 Philly Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival brings new perspective to Reading Terminal Market treats.

7 years ago

Carrie Feibel only had one child, her daughter Joni, and was able to ease her eco-anxiety. (Courtesy of Carrie Feibel)
The Pulse
Environment

Only Joni: Choosing one child

Living in Houston with flaring smokestacks in the distance stoked Carrie Feibel’s eco-anxieties. Still, she decided to have a kid... but just one.

7 years ago

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Many communities rely on inefficient and dirty wood fired stoves to cook. A common carbon offset project is to supply communities with cleaner, more efficient stoves. For recipients, like this family in Honduras, it saves time and money, as well as carries health benefits. (Courtesy of Cool Effect)
The Pulse
Environment

Carbon indulgences: Pay to lighten your carbon footprint

Some companies offer you the chance to “erase” your carbon sins without making big changes to your lifestyle.

7 years ago

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This undated microscope image provided by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in January 2018 shows a trophectoderm biopsy, in which cells from the outer layer of an embryo that develop into the placenta and amniotic membranes are removed and can be used for genetic testing. When a couple is known to be at risk for having a child with a specific genetic disorder, the woman undergoes a procedure to remove some of her eggs. After fertilization, some cells can be plucked from the embryos and examined to identify those without carry the disease-causing abnormality. (ASRM via AP)
Home & Family
Innovation

Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile

You've probably read about concerns over "designer babies," whose DNA is shaped by gene editing.

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Shedding Light on Dark Matter

Scientists at the University of Washington have developed the tech to ‘see’ what could be a low-mass particle responsible for ...

Air Date: April 17, 2018

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