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Science

This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo. A new study says Amazon’s facial-detection technology often misidentifies women, particularly those with darker skin. (Reed Saxon/AP Photo, File)
Gender
Race & Ethnicity
Technology

Researchers say Amazon face-detection technology shows bias

Facial-detection technology that Amazon is marketing to law enforcement often misidentifies women with darker skin, researchers from MIT and the University of Toronto say.

7 years ago

wind farm offshore
Down the Shore
Energy
New Jersey
Technology

Wind farm surveying begins off N.J. coast

The surveying off the coast of Atlantic and Cape May counties is the first phase of the "Ocean Wind Project" situated 15 miles east of Atlantic City.

7 years ago

The Pulse
Behavioral Health
Biology
Public Health

In Science We Trust

From anti-vaxxers to climate change deniers and even flat-Earthers, there’s a lot of mistrust in science. But how did we get here in th ...

Air Date: January 25, 2019

Listen 48:12
Salem Nuclear Power Plant as seen from the Blackbird Creek. (Brian Drouin/WHYY)
Energy
Environment

New Jersey looks to rejoin RGGI to tackle greenhouse gas emissions

The state Department of Environmental Protection is having an open hearing on two proposals that would allow New Jersey to rejoin the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

7 years ago

Listen 1:44
A former GMO researcher explains how class plays into flawed perceptions of genetically engineered crops. (Image courtesy of Bigstock)
The Pulse
Environment
Income Inequality
International
Public Health
Technology

Why opposition to GMOs is a First World privilege

How public mistrust in GMOs destroyed one scientist's dream of helping farmers in developing countries produce sturdier, higher-yield crops.

7 years ago

Listen 06:49
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
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Pa. might set maximum limits on a toxic chemical in drinking water. Some ask: What’s there to decide?

Activists want a new panel to regulate the chemicals in the absence of federal standards.

7 years ago

An iceberg melts in Kulusuk Bay, eastern Greenland, in this July 17, 2007, file photo.  The melting of the Greenland ice cap and its effect on the area around Greenland is one of the more immediate effects of climate change. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
Radio Times
Environment
Politics

Climate change is real…now what?

Today, we'll talk about how an increasing number of Americans are worried about climate change, as well as a couple of small changes being proposed to stem it.

Air Date: January 24, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:00
A group of year old mussels that were grown in the team's lab inside the Philadelphia Water Works Mussel Hatchery. (Brad Larrison for WHYY)
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Freshwater mussel hatchery at Bartram’s Gardens aims to provide natural filter for Pa. rivers, streams

Pennvest will invest $7.9 million into the mid-Atlantic hatchery.

7 years ago

In this July 25, 2018 photo US EPAs Peter Grevatt, Director of the Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water and Cosmo Servidio, Regional Administrator for the Mid-Atlantic Region, listen to members of the public comment during a PFAS Community Stakeholder Meeting, on in Horsham, Pa. In Horsham and surrounding towns in eastern Pennsylvania, and at other sites around the United States, the foams once used routinely in firefighting training at military bases contained per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. EPA testing between 2013 and 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Environment
Public Health
StateImpact Pennsylvania

New Jersey proposes PFAS regulations for groundwater; EPA regulations delayed by shutdown

New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection has taken a step toward cleaning up water contamination from an unregulated class of perfluorinated chemicals known as PFAs

7 years ago

A U.S. flag flies in the foreground of this image of the moon during the lunar eclipse as seen from Washington, D.C., on Sunday night (J. David Ake/AP)
NPR
Space

PHOTOS: Super ‘Blood Moon’ wows

The huge, red moon awed viewers across the Americas and parts of western Europe and Africa on Sunday night and early Monday morning.

7 years ago

Crews worked on Monday Jan. 21 to stabilize a new sinkhole that opened up at Lisa Drive, a suburban development in West Whiteland Township, Chester County where Sunoco operates its Mariner East pipelines. (Jon Hurdle / StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Mariner East pipelines: New sinkhole opens at Chester County site; Sunoco shuts line

A new sinkhole appeared late Sunday at a Sunoco pipeline site in Chester Co. where several earlier sinkholes led officials to halt construction because of safety concerns.

7 years ago

In this July 27 2018 file photo, Earth starts to cast its shadow on the moon during a total lunar eclipse seen from Volgograd, Russia. Starting Sunday evening, Jan. 20, 2019, all of North and South America will be able to see the only total lunar eclipse of 2019 from start to finish this weekend. (Aleksandr Kulikov/Kommersant/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images))
Space

Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night

The moon, Earth and sun will line up this weekend for the only total lunar eclipse this year and next.

7 years ago

The lunar lander of the Chang'e-4 probe is seen on Jan. 11. The seeds that scientists hoped would thrive within a biodome aboard have all died. (AP via China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency)
NPR
International
Space

China tried to grow cotton on the moon, but it didn’t work

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency announced the news, simply stating: "The experiment has ended."

7 years ago

Skytalk
Space

Lunar Eclipse Beckons

Despite the forecasted blast of arctic air heading our way Sunday – bundle up and brave the cold because the next opportunity to ta ...

Air Date: January 19, 2019

Listen 06:43
Public domain image.
Down the Shore
Environment
New Jersey

No tsunami alert after earthquake off Maryland coast

A 4.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the Maryland coast Tuesday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey. 

7 years ago

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