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Health & Science

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Voices in the Family
Health

Sex and aging

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 00:02:55
KELT-9
Skytalk
Science

Some Like it Hot

If 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

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StateImpact
Science

Fire fighting foam contamination sites clustered along Delaware River

5 years ago

Shorebirds take flight along the Delware Bay in Cape May County, New Jersey.
Science

Why 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

 Jenny Leyh. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

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

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 April Anderson is trying to quit smoking after forty years. She's HIV positive, which means the negative health effects of smoking are even greater her. (Morgan Springer/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Smoking 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

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 Maria Rios, 20, watches over her baby, Aryanna Guadalupe Sanchez-Rios. (Heidi de Marco/KHN)
The Pulse
Health

Doctors 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

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Philadelphia
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Science

Philadelphiahenge

Wiltshire, 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

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The Pulse
Health

The Meat Show

Steaks 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

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StateImpact
Science

DEP demands more information on plans for Bucks County hazardous waste site

5 years ago

StateImpact
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Battle over Delaware River water supplies has conservationists worried

5 years ago

 Bob Shoudt, left, competes against other major league eaters in the fourth annual Ash Creek Saloon Rib Eating Championship. Shoudt took first place and won 3000 dollars. (Douglas Healey/AP)
The Pulse
Health

Are the ‘meat sweats’ real?

Carnivores say too much protein makes them perspire. Scientists say that’s doubtful. Chris Pinto from South Philadelphia say ...

5 years ago

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the sun
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Ring Around the Sun

A 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
Paul Cherashore of the Philadelphia Overdose Prevention Initiative holds a dose of naloxone, an antidote for opioid overdoses. (Courtenay Harris Bond)
Speak Easy
Health

‘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

 Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro speaks at an opioid forum hosted by the Independence Blue Cross Foundation. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

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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