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Guests:  Wendy Klein, Andy Hinds, Emily Oster Let’s be honest….no one likes doing chores, but the good n ...

Taunya English has the story on this year’s Philadelphia Award winner–a genetics researcher whose discoveries are helping to ...

NASA’s education and public outreach activities may come to a halt – part of efforts to pare $1.2 trillion dollars over the n ...

CAROL ROSENBERG, BENJAMIN WITTES & DAVID FRAKT At least 31 prisoners at the ...

Guest: Marlene Zuk Have you tried barefoot running, the Caveman Diet or attachment parenting?  Taking lessons fr ...

March 30, 2013 — As many people sadly learn, trying to grow grass from seed just doesn’t work in most climates in the sp ...

Holly Otterbein previews this Monday’s deadline for Philadelphians to appeal their property tax assessments.  We talk to Rebec ...

Guests: Ed Whelan, Tobias Wolff This week the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases related to same-sex marr ...

[REBROADCAST] Henrietta Lacks was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors; she di ...

Emma Jacobs reports on the US Supreme Court’s ruling on a class action lawsuit aimed at Comcast. Maiken Scott looks into how the Philad ...

Psychopaths. They’re often depicted as smooth-talking liars, devoid of guilt and empathy and immune to healthy fears and stress. Many ...

This special First Extra edition features the members of the WHYY Health and Science Desk reporting on how technology is influen ...

Guest: Carl Van Horn The unemployment rate has been improving in recent months, dipping to 7.7 percent in Februar ...

Guest: MOHAMMED FAIROUZ New York-based composer, ...

Dave Davies reports on Birdsall Service Group’s indictment for conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions. We take a closer ...