
Science
NASA’s 2020 budget request for $21 billion includes significant funding to build systems and infrastructure to return to the moon b ...
Air Date: March 16, 2019
Listen 06:43Students in Pa., N.J. skipping class to urge action on climate change
‘What’s the point of preparing for a future if you won’t have one?’ said Philly’s lead organizer, Sabirah Mahmud, 16.
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Japan looks past electric, bets on hydrogen powered cars
Japan has ambitious goals to become the “hydrogen society,” and right now, the focus is on its automakers.
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Animal emotions and what they tell us about ourselves
Primatologist Frans de Waal discusses his new book, "Mama's Last Hug" about wide range of emotions that animals display.and what they tell us about ourselves.
Air Date: March 14, 2019 10:00 am
Listen 49:58Call for global moratorium on creating gene-edited babies
A group of prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for a global moratorium on any new attempts to bring gene-edited babies into the world.
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Where will your plastic trash go now that China doesn’t want it?
Last year, China drastically cut back its imports of plastic waste to recycle. Now the U.S. and other wealthy nations must figure out what to do with their discards.
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UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless
The Earth is sick with multiple and worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new U.N. report says.
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Nuclear watchdog group, citing potential safety issue at Three Mile Island, wants investigation
Three Mile Island Alert is asking federal regulators to analyze what the group calls a “potentially dangerous and risky condition” at Exelon's Three Mile Island plant.
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Pa. AG, Delco DA launch criminal investigation into Sunoco, Energy Transfer
Energy Transfer says the probe into the construction of the Mariner East pipelines "has no legitimate basis."
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The partial meltdown at Three Mile Island left areas of the facility highly radioactive and inaccessible to humans. Along came a young group of researchers and robots.
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State reaches $7M agreement over 1,400 abandoned oil and gas wells
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has reached an agreement with an Alabama company over the costs of plugging 1,400 abandoned wells in the state.
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Barriers, flood walls could help protect back bays, Army Corps says
The interim report foresees a ‘massive’ construction project costing ‘several billion dollars.’
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It’s 2050 and this is how we stopped climate change
Let's imagined that we've ended global warming. Humans are no longer releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Here's what life is like in a zero-carbon world.
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Could a booster shot of truth help scientists fight the anti-vaccine crisis?
Imagine what might happen if the government itself had embraced an official anti-vaccine policy.
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A gulp of genetically modified bacteria might someday treat a range of illnesses
Scientists hope to genetically modify microbes from the human microbiome to treat a range of diseases, including digestive disorders.
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