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During sleep paralysis, many people see a strange presence in their room. (Illustration by Steve Teare)
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Sleep paralysis: How a deep-sleep glitch can conjure the boogeyman

There’s an unnerving, specific kind of dream — a nightmare, really — that can happe ...

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Vashti DuBois stands over her bed. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Reclaiming a good night’s sleep after trauma-induced insomnia

A museum exhibit helped Vashti DuBois finally sleep after nearly 3 years of unrest. Standing in her living room — a serene, dark ...

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A sleeping chimp at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. (Photo courtesy of Lydia Hopper, Assistant Director, Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study and Conservation of Apes)
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Sleep habits may have helped humans branch off from other primates

Human sleep behavior is different than that of many kinds of primates. That made researchers wonder, why did our branch of the family tre ...

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Zach Goldberg listens to Harry Potter on tape to fall asleep. (Andrew Stelzer/for WHYY)
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Sleep is the new skinny — with a booming industry to help us get rest

We’re paying millions for plush mattresses and gee whiz gadgets — but a little “sleep hygiene̶ ...

8 years ago

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You Must Remember This – An Eclipse Is Not Just an Eclipse

Kepler scientists this week announced the 219 newest additions to the exoplanet count – 10 of which are identified as “terres ...

Air Date: June 26, 2017

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 Protesters in Los Angeles in march demonstrate against the American Health Care Act, which the White House hopes will replace Obamacare. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file
Speak Easy
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The dangers of replacing Obamacare with the Republican health care bill

How can we live in a modern society — what some would call the greatest country in the world — and not provide health care as a right ...

8 years ago

StateImpact
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How one Philadelphia neighborhood battles rising tides

8 years ago

The space suits from '2001: A Space Odyssey' (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
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‘2001’ came and went, but the movie’s ideas still resonate

The 1968 movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” painted a grand vision of the future — but for lots of us, the real 21st Century has ...

8 years ago

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 Dr. Cunningham poses for a portrait in her office at the Montefiore Comprehensive Care Center in the Bronx. (Edwin Torres/GroundTruth)
The Pulse
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Stigma keeps some doctors from treating drug addiction

Most primary care doctors aren’t able to prescribe Rx anti-addiction medicine. Internal medicine physician Chinazo Cunningha ...

8 years ago

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Verizon Wireless testing drones for airborne 4G LTE for emergency crews

In a remote corner of South Jersey, a group of emergency first responders entered the woods on Tuesday, June 20, to test a drone-based ce ...

8 years ago

Joanna Otero-Cruz, deputing managing director for community services, prepares Kensington residents for the impact of the Gurney Street clean-up project. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Health

Philly briefs neighborhood on cleanup of Conrail heroin encampment

Philadelphia is trying to get the word out about the plan to clean up a stretch of railroad tracks in West Kensington plagued by the opio ...

8 years ago

Jana Curtis and two of her children walk past one of many construction sites in their river ward neighborhood. Three-year-old Nolyn Pace, center, was poisoned by lead in the soil in their backyard. (Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia Media Network)
NewsWorks Tonight
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How much lead is hiding in Philly’s former industrial neighborhoods?

The construction boom in the so-called “river wards,” once Philadelphia’s industrial hub, has unleashed a “lurkin ...

8 years ago

a binary star
Skytalk
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Twice Upon a Time…

Sun’s Original Twin: What happened to it? UC Berkeley astronomer Steven Stahler and Sarah Sadevoy of Smithsonian Astrophysical Obse ...

Air Date: June 19, 2017

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NJ Gubernatorial candidate calls for fracking ban in Delaware River Basin

8 years ago

Nuisance flooding is a part of life in New Jersey's coastal communities.
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NOAA: New Jersey will see an increase in nuisance flooding in 2017

For Jersey Shore residents and regular summer visitors, it’s just part of life. Once in a while, even on a still and sunny day, tid ...

8 years ago

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