
Health & Science
Sex and aging remains an uncomfortable topic for many people. But, a new study finds that your sex life is impacted by how old you feel, ...
Air Date: June 12, 2017
Listen 00:02:55If you’re sweating from our current heat wave, be glad you don’t live on planet KELT-9, orbiting a blue A-type star 620 light ...
Air Date: June 12, 2017
Listen 00:04:39Why the Red Knot bird lives and dies by what happens here
Everything is in place along the Delaware Bay beach on an early late Spring morning. The net is carefully folded, the cannons set at the ...
5 years ago
Adjusting to two new identities: mother and cancer survivor
Jenny Leyh was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She used to dread walking into the waiting room for ea ...
5 years ago
ListenSmoking is often the hardest ‘vice’ to quit
Public health experts say: Ditch your smokes. And if you have HIV, there are a few extra reasons to kick the habit soon. At ...
5 years ago
ListenDoctors scramble to care for U.S. babies with Zika-related birth defects
When her daughter was born in January, the first thing Maria Rios checked was the baby’s head. She’d seen the te ...
5 years ago
ListenWiltshire, England doesn’t have the monopoly on solar events with summer solstice at Stonehenge. Philadelphia is a suitable site to ...
Air Date: June 5, 2017
Listen 00:05:44Steaks are delicious. Bacon is tasty. Americans eat a ton of meat, and consumption is on the rise. And, there are serious implications in ...
Air Date: June 2, 2017
Listen 48:49Carnivores say too much protein makes them perspire. Scientists say that’s doubtful. Chris Pinto from South Philadelphia say ...
5 years ago
ListenA cosmic debris ring has been observed around a star where a planet has already been directly observed. Plus, the observed lunar in ...
Air Date: May 29, 2017
Listen 00:04:28‘People die of stigma. They don’t die from heroin.’
Paul Yabor, 55, an activist in the HIV/AIDs and harm reduction communities who suffered from a substance use disorder himself, died last week Tuesday of a drug overdose.
5 years ago
Pa. AG says combating opioid abuse his top priority
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro says opioid abuse has become the biggest threat to keeping Pennsylvania residents safe. ...
5 years ago
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