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StateImpact
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Natural gas building boom fuels climate worries, enrages landowners

8 years ago

 Trash near a heroin encampment is seen from a Conrail vehicle on Thursday. (Joel Wolfram / WHYY)
Health

Philadelphia and Conrail launch work to clear railroad heroin encampment

Philadelphia and Conrail are starting work today on a plan to clean up a notorious stretch of tracks in the Kensington and Fairhill neigh ...

8 years ago

 A billboard advertises discounted cigarettes adjacent to a field used to grow tobacco on the Seneca Nation's Cattauragus reservation in Western New York. (Photo by Jessica Kourkounis/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Tribes hope tradition will fight unhealthy tobacco use

Cheap tribal cigarettes can complicate tobacco control on reservations. States and cities have come to understand that if they jac ...

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Science

Heat Wave

It’s summer, and it’s hot. On this episode, we get stranded on an urban ‘heat island’ and learn what people are d ...

Air Date: July 28, 2017

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Down the Shore
Health

UPDATE: Bacteria spurs N.J. beach closures

UPDAT ...

8 years ago

President Donald Trump departs after speaking during an event about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Speak Easy
Health

Can Republicans give Americans with disabilities the health insurance reform they need?

Insurance coverage for health care in America needs reform, especially for those on Medicaid. With the American Health Care Act (AHCA) de ...

8 years ago

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Voices in the Family
Health

The Pain of it All

At some point or another we all confront some sort of pain. Pain is necessary. We need it to alert us that something is wrong, but when a ...

Air Date: July 24, 2017

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Skytalk
Science

Shine on, you crazy Earth

This is a great week to watch the development of lunar phases. Start watching on Monday night, with a barely visible 1.5-day old thin cre ...

Air Date: July 24, 2017

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 Two workers take a nap on a roof in Madrid, Spain. (AP Photo/Alberto Di Lolli, File)
Speak Easy
Health

Time for Americans to take a break?

A recent study estimates that 36 percent of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress that costs businesses $30 billion a year in lost workdays.

8 years ago

 The City of Philadelphia and Conrail will work together to clean and secure the Conrail property in the Fairhill-Kensington neighborhood long used as a campground for drug addicts. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Conrail cleanup challenge: helping Philly heroin users into treatment

Dominic Taraborrelli’s house on Tusculum Street faces ground zero of Philadelphia’s heroin epidemic. Weeds and bushes obscure ...

8 years ago

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New Jersey joins California and Hawaii as the only states that you have to be 21 years old to smoke. (Shutterstock image)
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New Jersey is third state to raise smoking age to 21

New Jersey has become the third state in the country to raise its smoking age to 21. Republican Gov. Chris Christie signed into la ...

8 years ago

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The Pulse
Science

Leap of Space

On July 29th, 1958, President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act and soon we sent men where only our imaginations h ...

Air Date: July 21, 2017

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The Pulse
Science

A futuristic vacation guide to our galaxy for the savvy space traveler

How two space geeks imagine the future of trips to the stars. Rock climbing on Mars, playing baseball on the moon and skydiving th ...

8 years ago

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Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank. (Liz Tung/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Why heat is central to health in traditional Chinese medicine

For Chinese herbalist and acupuncturist Cara Frank, treating patients boils down to one thing: patterns. “We have a saying i ...

8 years ago

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Heat-loving bacteria, called thermophiles, thrive in the run-off channels of Pump Geyser where millions of microbes connect to create long strands, or filaments. Flowing water helps weave the filaments into bacteria mats that can be as thin as tissue paper or as thick as lasagna. (Rebecca Huntington/for WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

The biodiversity of heat-loving bacteria in Yellowstone rivals a rainforest

Blue, dark peach, bright red, orange — thermophilic organisms make the hot springs so colorful you’ll want to grab your selfie st ...

8 years ago

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