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Science

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage in lunar orbit in 1969 with with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard. The Earth rises above the lunar horizon. (Photo credit: NASA)
The Pulse
Politics
Space
Technology

Why haven’t we gone back to the moon?

Short answer: money

7 years ago

Listen 11:34
Traffic on I-95 heads south toward Center City.
PlanPhilly
Environment
Philadelphia
Public Health
PlanPhilly

New study finds elevated risk of pollution exposure in some of Philly’s hottest neighborhoods

Some of Philadelphia’s most desirable neighborhoods come with a risk of increased exposure to auto-related air pollution.

7 years ago

Fire fighters battle flames at the PES refinery in June 2019. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Energy
Environment
Public Safety
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Philadelphia refinery fire investigators to examine potential for release of dangerous chemical

A hydrogen fluoride release could have had deadly consequences.

7 years ago

A clinging jellyfish that was found in an Ocean County river. (Image courtesy of Dr. Paul Bologna)
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

Toxic jellyfish now found further south in Barnegat Bay

An expert says toxic clinging jellyfish have been found for the first time south of a popular Barnegat Bay boating area off southern Island Beach State Park. 

7 years ago

The number of medical marijuana patients has more than doubled in the last year. (Brennan Linsley/AP Photo)
Higher Education
Pennsylvania

Three Pa. med schools tapped for medical marijuana research programs

The Health Department says it plans to approve five more partnerships between marijuana growers and research centers this summer.

7 years ago

 A female horseshoe crab is hidden under a large number of smaller sized males. (Bas Slabbers for WHYY, file)
Biology
Delaware
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

With bird populations at stake, naturalists renew calls to halt horseshoe crab harvest in Delaware Bay

Conservation groups led by New Jersey Audubon are renewing their efforts to persuade the other bay states — Delaware, Maryland and Virginia — to ban the crab harvest.

7 years ago

Researchers dropped more than 17,000 wallets with varying amounts of money in countries around the world. Here, an example of the wallets that held the most money. (Christian Zünd)
NPR
International

What dropping 17,000 wallets around the globe can teach us about honesty

The researchers assumed that putting money in the wallet would make people less likely to return it, because the payoff would be bigger. But researchers saw the opposite.

7 years ago

The Pulse
Home & Family
Technology

The Science of Everyday Objects

From penicillin to the moon landing, we have science to thank for humanity’s greatest achievements. But science has also helped advance ...

Air Date: June 21, 2019

Listen 48:07
Calpine's York 2 Energy Center is an 828 megawatt combined-cycle natural gas-fired power plant in York County, Pa. (Marie Cusick/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Climate focus intensifies in Harrisburg, as budget negotiations and citizen-led petition advance

Parallel efforts to limit greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania — a citizen climate petition and a provision in the state budget — are topics of discussion in Harrisburg.

7 years ago

Anne Schauer-Gimenez (from left) Allison Pieja and Molly Morse of Mango Materials stand next to the biopolymer fermenter at a sewage treatment plant next to San Francisco Bay. The fermenter feeds bacteria the methane they need to produce a biological form of plastic. (Chris Joyce/NPR)
NPR
Environment

Replacing plastic: Can bacteria help us break the habit?

Entrepreneurs are eager to find substitutes for plastic that naturally degrade. One option is a "natural" plastic made by microbes and then eaten by them.

7 years ago

In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme.
(Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto)
NPR
Environment
Public Safety

Oh dear: Photos show what humans have done to the planet

Three Canadian artists traveled to 22 countries to research and document "places of obvious, physical human incursions on the landscape."

7 years ago

For decades, inventors have tried to re-engineer the standard white cane used by people who are blind or visually impaired. But it's a tricky task. (Image courtesy of WeWALK/Kürşat Ceylan)
The Pulse
Health Care
Innovation
Technology

Why is creating electronic canes for the blind so hard?

People who are visually impaired know what works for them and what doesn’t. They’d rather innovate their own technologies.

7 years ago

Listen 11:23
Bigstock/weerapat
The Pulse

How Did We Miss That?

You’re developing a new, revolutionary product. You have all the science figured out, it works like a charm. Problem is, nobody wants ...

Air Date: June 14, 2019

Listen 48:45
Red dye is released from the Kent County wastewater treatment plant into The Gut, a tributary of the Murderkill River which runs into the Delaware Bay. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Delaware
Environment

Delaware dyes streams red to predict how a wastewater spill would pollute shellfish

Red dye was released for 12 hours during an exam of how a wastewater spill could affect shellfish in the Delaware Bay.

7 years ago

 (<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-75641269/stock-photo-chocolate-cake.html?'>Chocolate cake</a> image courtesy of Shutterstock.com)
New Jersey
Public Health
NJ Spotlight

PFAS control advocates highlight FDA data showing chemicals in food

The FDA tested 91 meat, dairy, grain, and produce samples, and found PFAS in 10 of them.

7 years ago

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