
Health & Science
Newly discovered dwarf galaxies orbiting our Milky Way may offer opportunities to gain insight about so-called dark matter (the invisible ...
Air Date: April 6, 2015
ListenFastest star in the west (or east, north and south)
US 708 now holds the speed record for extragalactic stars: 2.7 million miles/hour! In this case it’s thought the velocity was provi ...
Air Date: March 30, 2015
ListenNASA Success Story Celebrates Silver Anniversary
Tomorrow marks the 25th year of Hubble Space Telescope operations. It has provided hundreds of thousands of images, identified quasars, d ...
Air Date: March 23, 2015
ListenSport and religion: Connections
Originally broadcast April, 2013 – If you were to draw a Venn diagram of concepts associated with baseball and reli ...
Air Date: March 23, 2015
ListenHow to make sense of your medical bills
When you look at your medical bill, are you confused about the charges? Do you not know where to start when you’re trying to figure ...
10 years ago
Water, Water (Almost) Everywhere
– A total solar eclipse is available to be seen – if you’re willing to travel . . . and if you’re willing to chan ...
Air Date: March 16, 2015
ListenOne day everything changes. Getting a diagnosis of a lifelong illness changes the way we feel about our bodies, our lives and our death. ...
Air Date: March 16, 2015
ListenMeetings at The Jet Propulsion Lab last week indicate that a major reason why NASA is pursuing landing on Mars is to protect human existe ...
Air Date: March 9, 2015
ListenThe science of wind tunnels – where and why those harsh winds strike
You may have noticed while walking through Philadelphia that certain spots are windier than others – so much so, that in a split second ...
10 years ago
Listen 4:24What if restaurants billed like hospitals?
Last week, we launched a new initiative with Clear Health Costs called WHYY PriceCheck to try to help create transparency around pricing ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:50Spring Ahead: Spring…or No Spring
Clocks go forward one hour to Daylight Saving Time Sunday morning at 2 a.m. Day length is now 11h20m with sunrise at 6:32 and sunset at 5 ...
Air Date: March 2, 2015
ListenJulianne Moore received an Oscar for her portrayal of a woman with Alzheimer’s in the movie, Still Alice, but what about d ...
Air Date: March 2, 2015
ListenWHYY’s Pricecheck: Share your medical bill, make health costs transparent
Please fill out the form below to help us and our partner, ClearHealthCosts.com, make health care costs more transparent. (It may take th ...
10 years ago
Busy ramp-up at International Space Station; both Russian and SpaceX Dragon resupply craft made deliveries recently in ...
Air Date: February 23, 2015
ListenIs there a science to love and trust?
Renowned relationship expert, Dr. John Gottman, joins for the hour to discuss his forty years of research into marital stability. At The ...
Air Date: February 23, 2015
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