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Biology
Politics

Trump administration restricts federal research involving human fetal tissue

Abortion-rights opponents hailed the move as a first step toward a complete ban on the use of human fetal tissue in research.

7 years ago

The Mütter Museum is getting a remodel. (Renderings courtesy of KieranTimberlake)
History
Philadelphia

Mütter Museum to double medical abnormalities exhibits

The College of Physicians in Philadelphia plans to shrink its library in order to expand its museum of medical abnormalities.

7 years ago

Inside Insite, North America’s first public supervised injection facility, located in Vancouver. Photo by Elana Gordon/WHYY
Addiction
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Drexel survey shows wider neighborhood support for overdose prevention site

New research out of Drexel University found 90% of neighborhood residents responding to a survey approved of opening a supervised injection facility there.

7 years ago

An artist's rendering of the mass extinction of life that occurred toward the end of the Permian Period, about 250 million years ago. (Lynette Cook/Science Source)
NPR
Environment
History

The ‘Great Dying’ nearly erased life on Earth. Scientists see similarities to today

The "Great Dying," the biggest extinction the planet has ever seen, happened some 250 million years ago and was largely caused by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

7 years ago

A large tree lays uprooted past the hole where it came from in a yard as people continue cleanup efforts, Thursday, March 24, 2011 in Hempfield, Pa. Severe storms went through the Westmoreland County area on Wednesday March 23, 2011, causing severe damage. The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado was responsible for destroying 30 homes and badly damaging about 60 more in western Pennsylvania. (Keith Srakocic)
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. has had a lot of tornadoes this year. But scientists don’t know if there’s a climate change link

Pennsylvania has seen an abnormally high number of tornadoes this year — with more than two dozen confirmed as of last week.

7 years ago

Bren Smith is a seaweed farmer and co-founder of GreenWave, a nonprofit that supports and trains ocean farmers. (Courtesy of GreenWave)
NPR
Environment
Food & Drink

Kelp has been touted as the new kale, but it has been slow to catch on

While seaweed has a lot of things going for it in terms of nutrition, the lack of infrastructure to process it and people's tastes have not been quick to adopt it.

7 years ago

Pipelines run from the offshore docking station to the four LNG tanks capable of holding 2.5 billion cubic feet of LNG apiece as shown Friday, June 13, 2003, at the Dominion Liquified Natural Gas facility in Cove Point, Md. (Matt Houston/AP Photo)
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
NJ Spotlight

Plans for LNG terminal in South Jersey kept under wraps, enviro group says

Developer and agencies deny effort to shield from public view plans that would allow for transfer of potentially explosive liquefied natural gas to ocean-going tankers.

7 years ago

The front face of Thwaites Glacier rises an estimated 60 feet to 75 feet above water in the areas where it is most intact. Roughly 90% of an ice shelf typically sits below the water line. (Carolyn Beeler/The World)
The Why
Environment
Infrastructure

The Thwaites Glacier is melting. Here’s why the Philly region should care

Scientists are racing to figure out how it much could contribute to sea level rise and impact cites and coastlines thousands of miles away, including the Philly region.

Air Date: June 3, 2019

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T.K. Thorne says the $20 monthly solar fee she pays to Alabama Power will double the time it will take to pay off her rooftop solar system. (Julia Simon for NPR)
NPR
Environment

To some solar users, power company fees are an unfair charge

"The bottom line is that ultimately they seem to be double counting — double charging essentially for the costs of backup generation," he says.

7 years ago

Rain obscures the view of a tornado on May 28 in Lawrence, Kan. (Kyle Rivas/Getty Images)
NPR
Environment
National
Public Safety

Scientists know how tornadoes form, but they are hard to predict

On Monday, 52 tornadoes may have touched down across eight states, says the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

7 years ago

A Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket, with a payload of 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday, May 23, 2019. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
Skytalk
Space

New Constellation On the Block

There is a new Constellation to see – and this one is artificial! The first set of satellites dedicated to eventually providi ...

Air Date: June 1, 2019

Listen 07:04
Downed tree limbs remain on cars outside a business Wednesday May 29, 2019 in Morgantown, Berks County. The National Weather Service says a tornado has been confirmed Tuesday in eastern Pennsylvania, where damage to some homes and businesses occurred, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. (Jacqueline Larma/AP Photo)
Environment
Pennsylvania
PA Post

Why this season of tornadoes in Pa. has been ‘absolutely berserk’; a meteorologist explains

“What you’re seeing here is not unusual. What made it noteworthy is how persistent and stubborn that pattern has been.”

7 years ago

U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at an energy summit hosted by Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and attended by Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon Thursday, May 30, 2019, in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Energy
Environment

Energy secretary says US can make oil, gas, coal cleaner

The Trump administration is committed to making fossil fuels cleaner rather than imposing "draconian" regulations on oil, gas and coal, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said.

7 years ago

Workers wade through floodwaters to recover lumber that floated from a lumber yard, Wednesday, May 29, 2019, in Harmony, Pa. More storms are predicted for the area. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

3 tornadoes confirmed after severe storms rake Pennsylvania

Experts said there were tornadoes on Tuesday in Indiana, Bradford and Berks counties. There were no reports of injuries.

7 years ago

For an annual report card evaluating the 200-mile-long bay, researchers at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science on Tuesday, May 21, 2019 gave the Chesapeake a grade of 46% for 2018, down from 54% in 2017. All of the indicators factored into the bay's health index declined or stayed flat last year. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP Photo)
Environment
Pennsylvania

Chesapeake Bay watchdog criticizes Pa. over pollution reduction progress

A nonprofit that tracks pollution in the Chesapeake Bay said Pennsylvania has failed to protect the nation's largest estuary from farm manure and stormwater.

7 years ago

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