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Ponds surround empty oil tanks at Petty's Island on the Delaware River.  (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY)
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Exploring urban islands: from natural to developed

Islands on Pennsylvania’s waterways are often overlooked, difficult to access or seen as liabilities, but some people are trying to change that.

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On Celebration and Transition

Family relationships, workplace worries, difficult world events – for 30 years, psychologist Dan Gottlieb has helped us navigate our da ...

Air Date: September 14, 2015

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Alice De Tiberge's ranch home in Pennington is powered by solar panels and and a system that stores excess energy as hydrogen for use when sunlight is weak. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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New Jersey inventor unveils ‘affordable’ hydrogen-solar home

A New Jersey inventor unveiled Friday what he is calling the first fully-permitted and affordable house powered by solar and hydrogen in ...

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Itty Bitty Black Hole Discovered

Along with the great visibility of Venus and Mars in the pre-dawn sky and Saturn in the evening, the big event this week is something we ...

Air Date: September 8, 2015

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Name It & Claim It

20 planets beyond our solar system need names. . . . and the public is invited to give its thumbs-up or down to proposals. Results will b ...

Air Date: August 31, 2015

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True or False; False

On August 27th , Mars will appear as large as the full moon. Don’t believe this hoax; It could happen BUT if it does, we have a lot ...

Air Date: August 24, 2015

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Kayakers on the Schuylkill (Jessica Kourkounis)
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[Video] Fast trip down the Schuylkill River to Philly

Recently, about a hundred hardy souls paddled down the Schuylkill River, from the quiet banks of Schuylkill Haven to the skyscrapers of P ...

8 years ago

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It’s Been a Dog Day’s Night!

There’s a great International Space Station pass tonight northwest over to the west; 8:51 to 8:58, but it’ll blink out of sig ...

Air Date: August 17, 2015

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Michael Trost of Dingmans Ferry, Pa. (seen here with his wife, Susan Rosalsky) was billed $32,325 for a surgery with an out-of-network doctor in an in-network hospital. (Elana Gordon/for WHYY)
The Pulse
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Surprise! When your hospital is in-network but your doctor isn’t

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

8 years ago

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Perseid Peaking

Perseid Meteor Shower peaks this week. – Weds night, Thurs night, Fri night. No moon this year, so it should be much easier to obse ...

Air Date: August 10, 2015

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Here Comes the Sun(s)

A quintuple star system is discovered in the constellation Ursa Major. Multiple systems are not unusual, in fact most stars are mu ...

Air Date: August 3, 2015

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Giant Surprises from the Dwarf Planet

Images and data beamed back from NASA’s New Horizons mission has astronomers rethinking what they thought they knew about Pluto. Ke ...

Air Date: July 27, 2015

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Happy Anniversary

46 years ago – Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the moon, while Michael Collins orbited overhead in ...

Air Date: July 20, 2015

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Dr. James Heitz, seen here with nurse Esmihan Almontaser, says crying after anesthesia occurs frequently enough that 'we should be aware of it as providers' even though it's not frequently documented in major anesthesiology textbooks (Karen Shakerdge/for WHYY)
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Why do some patients cry after anesthesia?

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

8 years ago

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Happy Anniversary ADA!

Twenty-five years ago, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, bettering the lives of many Ameri ...

Air Date: July 20, 2015

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