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Biology professor James Cosentino (center) examines a brain at Millersville University with students (from left) Katy Good, Lexi Colgan, Clara Forney, and Jessica Hanner.
NewsWorks Tonight
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At Millersville University, students are clamoring for cadavers

Biology students fearful that climbing costs could end cadaver studies have mobilized to support the program. But administrators say the activism is unnecessary.

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Shown are blighted and abandoned row homes in Philadelphia
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To solve Philadelphia hunger crisis, focus on fighting poverty

The Philadelphia metropolitan area — including the suburbs — contains nearly three-quarters of a million people struggling with hunger, a 20 percent increase over six years.

7 years ago

Ray Kemble of Dimock, displays a jug of what he identifies as his contaminated well water in this August 2013 file photo. (AP PHOTO/MATT ROURKE)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Cabot Oil wants money from homeowner for critical claims following settled lawsuit

7 years ago

Exelon's Three Mile Island nuclear plant outside Harrisburg is slated to close in September 2019, 15 years before its operating license expires. (JOANNE CASSARO/ WITF)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
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Time running out to save Three Mile Island from early closure

There are multiple efforts underway at the federal, state, and regional levels to try to boost the nuclear power industry.

7 years ago

The spotted lanternfly is the insect behind the Christmas tree quarantine. (Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture)
Science

Pa. acts to prevent invasive insects from spreading in Christmas tree shipments

As spotted lanternflies from Southeast Asia reproduce q ...

7 years ago

In this June 2, 2017 file photo, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Scott Pruitt speaks in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo, file)
Science

Watchdog to probe EPA chief’s purchase of soundproof booth

A government watchdog will examine whether the head of the EPA misused taxpayer money by purchasing a soundproof booth for making private phone calls from his office.

7 years ago

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Geminid Meteor Shower

The Geminid meteor shower peaks Wednesday and Thursday this week with upwards of 100 meteors per hour. The moon is a very thin wani ...

Air Date: December 12, 2017

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A Cabot Oil & Gas drill rig nestled into the landscape in Kingsley, Pa.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
Science

Gas driller: Make Dimock homeowner pay for disparaging us

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. claims Dimock resident Ray Kemble and his former lawyers tried to extort the company through a frivolous federal lawsuit.

7 years ago

A natural gas well pad in Washington County, Pa.  Dec. 1, 2017. (Amy Sisk/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Lawmakers consider breaks for oil, gas in tax bills

As lawmakers hash out differences between the tax bills in front of Congress, they must decide whether to keep a proposed tax break for oil and gas investors.

7 years ago

The Elrama Power Plant near Pittsburgh was closed in 2012. Photo: Reid R. Frazier
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Trump administration coal plan could have big impact on Pennsylvania

7 years ago

The Wharton School of Business on the University of Pennsylvania campus.
Speak Easy
Health

College campuses failing to fully decode mental illness

Academia, known at times for fostering innovation and creativity, is also casually slow and bureaucratic when it comes to implementing much-needed radical change.

7 years ago

Roz Gitt from Warwick, New York, protests in front of the construction site for the new CPV natural gas plant in Wawayanda. The plant would run on Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale gas.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

New York’s heralded fracking ban isn’t all it’s cracked up to be

7 years ago

A woman gets an injection in her upper arm
Health

Flu season strikes early in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware

Flu season is off to an early start this year. Experts say it’s time to get a flu shot, if you haven’t already, because numbers could peak even more around the holidays.

7 years ago

FILE: Governor Tom Wolf's deputy chief of staff Yesenia Bane, speaking at natural gas industry conference in 2016.
StateImpact Pennsylvania
Science

Ethics complaint filed against Wolf aide

7 years ago

Paul Butler works at the 24-hour hotline at the main psychiatric hospital in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Crisis averted: scenes from the nation’s 24-hour helpline

The call came in late one summer night. Immediately, Paul Butler’s stomach sank, his heart sped up and he started listening.

7 years ago

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