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Here! Now! In the moment! Paddling in the middle of a fast moving stream of news and information. Here & Now is a daily news magazine, bringing you the news that breaks after "Morning Edition" and before "All Things Considered."

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This longhorned tick was discovered on a farm in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in November.  (Photo courtesy N.J. Department of Agriculture)
Health

Invasive tick species found last year in New Jersey survived winter

The longhorned tick is known to transmit diseases in East Asia, but no disease has been detected in the ones found in Hunterdon County.

7 years ago

A sample of cannabidiol (CBD) oil is dropped into water. Supplements containing the marijuana extract are popular and widely sold as remedies for a variety of ailments and aches. But scientific evidence that they work hasn't yet caught up for most applications, researchers say. (Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images)
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Anxiety relief without the high: New studies on CBD, a cannabis extract

As more states legalize marijuana, there's growing interest in a cannabis extract — cannabidiol, also known as CBD.

7 years ago

A homeless person takes shelter under an overpass on North 5th Street.
Health

Amid Pa. opioid disaster, lacking ID still a barrier to treatment

It's not easy to hold onto your possessions when you're living on the street, and that also goes for your license or birth certificate.

7 years ago

5,500 U.S. youths ages 12 to 17, about 6 percent say they've engaged in some sort of digital self-harm. More than half in that subgroup say they've bullied themselves this way more than once.
(Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images)
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Health

When teens cyberbully themselves

They're anonymously posting mean and derogatory comments about themselves on social media.

7 years ago

National Transportation Safety Board investigators examine damage to the engine of the Southwest Airlines plane that made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
Health

After air accidents, survivors grapple with flying again

Plane crashes are rare, but when they happen, people often survive them.

7 years ago

A panel talk on Philadelphia's opioid crisis featured (from left) Maiken Scott, moderator and host of WHYY's The Pulse; Michael McMahon, district attorney of Richmond County (Staten Island), New York; Cynthia Reilly, director of Pew’s substance use prevention and treatment initiative; Evan Behrle, special adviser for opioid policy at Baltimore City's Health Department; Thomas Farley, Philadelphia's health commissioner. (Elana Gordon/WHYY)
Science

Philly is ‘floating on opioids’: Civic leaders address drug crisis, share solutions

Philadelphia is wrestling with one of the nation’s highest overdose death rates amid a drug crisis that does not appear to be letting up.

7 years ago

A customer adds mustard to corn dogs at Fox and Son at Reading Terminal Market. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Science

Lots of thought for food at ’18 Philly Science Festival

Philadelphia Science Festival brings new perspective to Reading Terminal Market treats.

7 years ago

Voices in the Family
Health

Moving Past Outrage Fatigue

The current political atmosphere has many people feeling distressed. What’s the best way to cope with our emotions when we’re outrage ...

Air Date: April 20, 2018

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the TESS satellite lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday. The satellite will scan nearly the entire sky for alien worlds. (John Raoux/AP)
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Science

SpaceX launches NASA satellite to search for alien worlds

Tess — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — will spend two years searching for planets.

7 years ago

Meghan Adorno squeezes some lemons for almost-instant chickpea-tomato soup, from her favorite cookbook, Vegan on the Cheap. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Chickpea soup for the planet

Thirty-four-year-old Meghan Adorno says being vegan is about keeping herself healthy, protecting animals, and saving the planet.

7 years ago

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Carrie Feibel only had one child, her daughter Joni, and was able to ease her eco-anxiety. (Courtesy of Carrie Feibel)
The Pulse
Science

Only Joni: Choosing one child

Living in Houston with flaring smokestacks in the distance stoked Carrie Feibel’s eco-anxieties. Still, she decided to have a kid... but just one.

7 years ago

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Many communities rely on inefficient and dirty wood fired stoves to cook. A common carbon offset project is to supply communities with cleaner, more efficient stoves. For recipients, like this family in Honduras, it saves time and money, as well as carries health benefits. (Courtesy of Cool Effect)
The Pulse
Science

Carbon indulgences: Pay to lighten your carbon footprint

Some companies offer you the chance to “erase” your carbon sins without making big changes to your lifestyle.

7 years ago

Listen 7:57
A mosquito's antenna responds to odors. Scientists are trying to figure out how the malaria parasite might trigger a change in body odor that draws in mosquitoes that carry the disease, like the Anopheles skeeter pictured above. (BSIP/UIG/Getty Images)
NPR
Science

What brings a mosquito in for the bite?

Here's what you learn when you put smelly socks in front of mosquitoes.

7 years ago

This undated microscope image provided by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in January 2018 shows a trophectoderm biopsy, in which cells from the outer layer of an embryo that develop into the placenta and amniotic membranes are removed and can be used for genetic testing. When a couple is known to be at risk for having a child with a specific genetic disorder, the woman undergoes a procedure to remove some of her eggs. After fertilization, some cells can be plucked from the embryos and examined to identify those without carry the disease-causing abnormality. (ASRM via AP)
Science

Parenting of the future: Many embryos, each with DNA profile

You've probably read about concerns over "designer babies," whose DNA is shaped by gene editing.

7 years ago

Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Debate over Philly’s safe injection site plan gets personal

Evan and Darlene love each other. But they do not see eye to eye on safe injection sites. The debate has infused their conversations, in all hours of the day and night.

7 years ago

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