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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A's goal is to act as a national mirror-taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

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Smog blankets the sky in Mexico City. (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo)
Environment
Politics

Dark skies: UN meeting reveals a world in a really bad mood

The UN is often criticized for talking a lot and not getting much done. But when it comes to eloquent talk, particularly about the future, it has always been the strongest.

7 years ago

A team of scientists used a telescope at the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain to detect a gas giant orbiting a tiny red star some 30 light-years from Earth. (Baback Tafreshi/Science Source/Getty Images)
NPR
National
Space

A peculiar solar system has scientists rethinking theories of how planets form

A surprisingly large planet orbiting a small star defies the conventional wisdom about how planets are born.

7 years ago

This artist's impression shows the planet K2-18b, its host star and an accompanying planet in this system. By ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
Skytalk
Space

Looking for Goldilocks

Weeks ago, an announcement about the discovery on an exoplanet where it appeared possible for an atmosphere with precipitation to exist l ...

Air Date: September 28, 2019

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This Monday, June 17, 2019, file photo shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone. (Keith Srakocic/AP Photo, File)
Higher Education
Medicine
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Rutgers Dental researchers to lead landmark study of opioid alternatives

National Institutes of Health award $11.7 million to university to spearhead project comparing narcotic and non-narcotic pain medicine treatments

7 years ago

In this Aug. 1, 2018 photo weeds engulf a playground at housing section of the former Naval Air Warfare Center Warminster in Warminster, Pa. the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained PFAS. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
Pennsylvania
Public Health

Temple researchers will look at link between PFAS and cancer

University researchers will examine possible associations between PFAS-contaminated drinking water and cancer as part of a federally funded health study.

7 years ago

In this file photo, Mariner East 2 pipeline construction crews work in the backyards of homes on Lisa Drive in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, on May 2, 2018 after sinkholes opened in the area. That caused one of the ME2 project's many delays. (Marie Cusick/WITF)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Sunoco still needs DEP approvals to restart pipeline work in Chester County

The lifting of the injunction at the sinkhole site isn’t a final green light for Mariner East.

7 years ago

Palforzia, a new drug to treat peanut allergies, is expected to get FDA approval. The main ingredient of the drug is peanut flour.
NPR
Food & Drink
Medicine
Public Health

Allergists debate anticipated FDA approval of a peanut allergy drug

The drug, called Palforzia, was developed by California startup Aimmune Therapeutics to be taken daily in a regimen known as oral immunotherapy.

7 years ago

The Horsham Air Guard Station in Bucks County, Pa. where the use of PFAS chemicals in firefighting foam has been linked with contamination of local water supplies. (Jon Hurdle/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Environment
Public Health
Sustainability

Bucks, Montgomery counties will get $5 million to study health effects of PFAS

Residents in affected Bucks and Montgomery County communities will be eligible for blood testing as part of a national study on the effects of PFAS.

7 years ago

Climate activist Rafe Pomerance speaks at an event at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy in Philadelphia on Sept. 12. (Photo courtesy of the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy)
Environment
Sustainability
StateImpact Pennsylvania

What longtime climate activist Rafe Pomerance wants you to know

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Susan Phillips sat down with Pomerance and asked him what he wants people to know right now.

7 years ago

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Migrating shorebirds at Kimbles Beach, N.J. Researchers estimate that the population of North American shorebirds alone has fallen by more than a third since 1970. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
NPR
Environment

North America has lost 3 billion birds, scientists say

More than 90% of the loss can be attributed to just a dozen bird families, including sparrows, blackbirds and finches.

7 years ago

Scientists have been studying the link between climate change and extreme weather events such as Hurricane Sandy, shown here in a NASA image, which left more than 1.3 million Pennsylvanians in the dark in 2012. (Getty Images)
Energy
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Five climate change science misconceptions, debunked

Here are five commonly used myths and the real science that debunks them.

7 years ago

Erica Baugh of Upstream Alliance floats on the Delaware River in Pyne  Poynt Park in Camden, N.J. (Miguel Martinez for WHYY)
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

Floatopia promotes a swimmable (and tube-worthy) urban Delaware River

Upstream Alliance, an environmental group, organized last weekend’s event to show that the stretch between Philly and Camden is safe to float in — sometimes.

7 years ago

Peter Bosak, superintendent of the Cape May County Department of Mosquito Control, explains how mosquitos are trapped. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
Environment
New Jersey

Climate change brings mosquito whack-a-mole to New Jersey

The salt marsh mosquito was once nicknamed the “New Jersey state bird.” But changing conditions are shifting concern from that mosquito to others.

7 years ago

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The Svínafellsjökull glacier in Iceland. Glacial retreat is among the most visible impacts of climate change. Since the early 20th century, with few exceptions, glaciers around the world have been retreating at unprecedented rates. (Marie Cusick / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Going carbon neutral: Pa.’s key role in fight against climate change

StateImpact Pa. signed on to “Covering Climate Now,” an effort that describes itself as “aimed at strengthening the media’s focus on the climate crisis.”

7 years ago

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey
Outdoors

2019 a record year for N.J. bald eagles, survey finds

The survey found that New Jersey bald eagles registered the highest recorded number of active nests and young fledged.

7 years ago

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