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Health & Science

Joey Clawson at one of his Christmas tree stands on the first day of harvest. He grows about 95,000 firs on his operation. (Irina Zhorov for WHYY)
NPR
Science

A Christmas tree thrives on farms, struggles in the wild

The Fraser fir is found in a lot of homes around Christmas. But its wild cousins have been in decline for almost a century because of a small invasive pest.

6 years ago

This active drill site on state forest land in Tioga County will tap the Utica Shale formation, Oct. 2019. (Susan Phillips/WHYY)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Natural gas production headed for a slow-down in 2020

Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia accounted for one-third of the country's shale gas production in 2019.

6 years ago

An old problem has a potential new solution: Using psilocybin has helped patients quit smoking in a clinical trial. (Xakhr Chay Tha Man/EyeEm/Getty Images/EyeEm)
NPR
Health

A new way to quit? Psychedelic therapy offers promise for smoking cessation

For many Americans, hallucinogens still evoke the psychedelic '60s, bringing to mind the sex-and-drugs lifestyle of the hippie counterculture.

6 years ago

It's still pretty early in the flu season, but some states, including Texas and North Carolina, are already reporting the first influenza deaths, including at least 10 children. (SDI Productions/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Do you really need a flu shot? Here’s how to decide

Thanksgiving leftovers are a distant memory, and December's extra travel, shopping and family commitments are already straining nerves, budgets and immune systems.

6 years ago

Trees
The Pulse
Science

The Future of Trees

Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th ...

Air Date: December 20, 2019

Listen 49:00
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 presidential candidate, addresses teachers in Philadelphia on Monday, May 12. 2019. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Why
Health

How Rutgers and Penn helped shape Elizabeth Warren

Decades before she became a liberal firebrand, Elizabeth Warren was a registered Republican. Why her time at Rutgers and Penn helped spark her political shift.

Air Date: December 19, 2019

Listen 17:20
Fox Chase Cancer Center (Google Maps)
Health
Philadelphia Business Journal

Jefferson, Temple sign definitive agreement for sale of Fox Chase Cancer Center

Thomas Jefferson University entered into a binding agreement Wednesday with Temple University under which Jefferson will acquire Fox Chase Cancer Center.

6 years ago

Residents are also encouraged to keep the boxes stocked. Officials say to leave non-perishable, canned goods, and personal care items (excluding sharp objects and chemicals). (Courtesy of The Little Free Pantry)
Down the Shore
Health

Leave what you can, take what you need: ‘Free little pantry’ initiative expands at the Shore

Residents are also encouraged to keep the boxes stocked. Officials say to leave non-perishable, canned goods, and personal care items (excluding sharp objects and chemicals).

6 years ago

Spark Therapeutics co-founders Dr. Katherine High and Jeffrey D. Marrazzo. (PSC Photo Studio)
Health
Philadelphia Business Journal

Roche completes $4.3B purchase of Philadelphia gene therapy pioneer Spark Therapeutics

The Federal Trade Commission and European regulators cleared Roche's proposed $4.3 billion purchase of Spark Therapeutics.

6 years ago

Goats from the Philly Goat Project eat the leaves from invasive vines to clear the way for landscapers to identify and cut down English ivy to save hundred year old trees.  (Jessica Kourkounis/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Feed a goat, save a tree — or a whole yard’s worth

When English ivy vines threatened her family’s "private park," a homeowner enlisted some hungry, four-legged assistants.

6 years ago

Listen 03:55
Nurdles on Ferrycraigs Beach on the Firth of Forth, Scotland. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Science
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Scotland is turning Pennsylvania shale gas into plastic. But what happens to it next?

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans.

6 years ago

Workers harvest Fraser fir Christmas trees on Joey Clawson’s farm, outside Boone, NC. (Irina Zhorov/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

On the tree farm, a Christmas favorite thrives. In the wild, it struggles

The balsam wooly adelgid has devastated Appalachia’s native Fraser firs. On a North Carolina farm, their domesticated cousins grow with TLC.

6 years ago

Listen 06:41
Ann Jones has been spending two hours each day in front of a green LED light — an experimental treatment aimed at alleviating migraines and other forms of chronic pain. (Will Stone for NPR)
NPR
Health

Researchers explore a drug-free idea to relieve chronic pain: green light

Ann Jones tried everything short of surgery for her chronic migraines, which have plagued her since she was a child.

6 years ago

SpaceX's Starlink mission
Skytalk
Science

Let There Be Light (but not too much)

SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the ...

Air Date: December 14, 2019

Listen 06:23
Allison Beach holds the hand of her ailing mother Kathryne Beach inside her home in Hinesburg, Vt. Allison  (Thomas Marrinson/AP Photos)
Health

More Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals

For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people want.

6 years ago

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