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Health & Science

Little is known about how our brain processes text messages. (BigStock/Rido81)
Science

Could texting be making us worse at understanding science?

Scientific material requires the brain to process complex relations between concepts, between ideas, a Penn State researcher says.

6 years ago

Students select food items from the lunch line of the cafeteria at Draper Middle School in Rotterdam, N.Y. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
Radio Times
Health

Kids, dieting and body image

Weight Watchers new app for kids has been criticized for possibly harming users self-esteem. We'll talk about how to teach kids healthy habits and a positive body image.

Air Date: August 23, 2019 10:00 am

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Konik horses fighting in the Oostvaardersplassen reserve in the Netherlands. (Image courtesy of Andrew Balcombe)
The Pulse
Science

The Netherlands’ grand rewilding experiment, gone haywire

It was supposed to be paradise, a slice of raw nature in a densely populated country. But things didn't go according to plan, and the conditions were ripe for controversy.

6 years ago

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The Dutch Nature reserve Oostvaardersplassen. (Bigstock/durktalsma)
The Pulse
Science

Man-Made Worlds

It was supposed to be a paradise. A parcel of wilderness, reminiscent of the past, where birds and large grazers would find refuge. Conse ...

Air Date: August 23, 2019

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An FDA contract worker collects food and supplies from a food pantry in Baltimore. In the face of a Trump administration proposal that could cause 3 million people to lose federal food assistance, mayors from 70 cities are pushing back. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
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Health

70 mayors reject Trump food stamp proposal, saying it puts kids at risk

Mayors from 70 cities send a letter to the Trump administration, saying a plan to push millions of people out of the food stamp program would punish some of the neediest.

6 years ago

Several of the fires burning in the Amazon rainforest can be seen even from space, as evidenced by this satellite image provided by NASA earlier this month. Brazil's National Institute for Space Research said the country has seen a record number of wildfires this year.
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Science

Tens of thousands of fires ravage Brazilian Amazon, where deforestation has spiked

Fires in Brazil's Amazon rainforest are proliferating at an alarming rate.

6 years ago

Kevin Carducci is part owner and plant manager of Omni Recycling. He says it costs the business $1 million a year to get rid of the plastics that can't be recycled. (Rebecca Davis/NPR)
NPR
Science

More U.S. towns are feeling the pinch as recycling becomes costlier

At Omni Recycling, a materials recovery facility in Pitman, N.J., one can see firsthand the mess that plastic has become for recyclers.

6 years ago

What it looks like inside one of Vancouver's Insitesupervised injection facilities. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Health
Billy Penn

Step-by-step: How Philly’s overdose prevention site will work

From entry and observation to “motivational moment” and referral.

6 years ago

Suboxone, an oral film prescribed for the medication-assisted treatment of opioid addiction and dependency, is pictured in this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017 photo. (Charles Krupa/AP Photo)
Health

Hospitals to share opioid treatment strategies under $10 million plan

Health systems are known more for competition than working together, but when it comes to treating opioid addiction, that may be changing.

6 years ago

Trash sent for recycling moves along a conveyor belt to be sorted at Waste Management's material recovery facility in Elkridge, Md. In 2018, China announced it would no longer buy most plastic waste from places like the United States. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

U.S. recycling industry is struggling to figure out a future without China

China is no longer taking the world's waste. The U.S. recycling industry is overwhelmed. This doesn't bode well for our plastic waste problem.

6 years ago

This May 22, 2017, file photo, shows the control room at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Middletown, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
The Why
Science

Three Mile Island is closing. Now what?

Pennsylvania is shutting down Three Mile Island for good next month. With the nuclear plant gone, how will the state produce carbon-free energy?

Air Date: August 21, 2019

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In this Aug. 16, 2019, photo, large Icebergs float away as the sun rises near Kulusuk, Greenland. Scientists are hard at work, trying to understand the alarmingly rapid melting of the ice. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
Science

Earth’s future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

This is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.

6 years ago

A 15-year-old in Cambridge, Mass., shows off her vaping device in 2018. (Steven Senne/AP Photo)
NPR
Health

Cigarettes can’t be advertised on TV. Should Juul ads be permitted?

Why does e-cigarette maker Juul advertise its product on TV when cigarette ads are banned? The short answer: Because it can.

6 years ago

Scientists are using statistics, history and computer modeling to understand exactly how much hotter the oceans are today than they were before industrialization. Harvard researchers just found a clue in shipping records digitized after World War II. (Suomi NPP — VIIRS/NASA Earth Observatory)
NPR
Science

How much hotter are the oceans? The answer begins with a bucket

If you want to know what climate change will look like, you need to know what Earth's climate looked like in the past

6 years ago

At the kitchen table Summer Mills goes over documents accumulated in the past months while dealing with dental issues, on April 12, 2019. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Health

For low-income Pennsylvanians, dental care can be a nightmare

More than 1 million adults on Medicaid in Pennsylvania have only bare bones coverage. Why is getting dental care so hard for these patients?

Air Date: August 20, 2019

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