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Fuel, oxygen, and ignition: the science of fireworks

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

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Science can make blockbuster movies better

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A busy journalist and mom test drives tools from “happiness science.” When the architects of America wrote about the p ...

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A reformed fireworks enthusiast now stays inside on the Fourth

Each year, a Missouri  man created a bigger and more explosive pyrotechnics display — until the summer an ATF agent showed up at his d ...

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Philly, Conrail outline plan to clear long-festering heroin camp along tracks

Philadelphia officials say they have finally reached a plan with Conrail to remove and clean up a haven for heroin users on the company ...

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A night shift doctor’s quest for daytime shuteye

After working overnight, an ER doctor does her best to sleep during the sunniest hours. While Dorian Jacobs’ husband and tod ...

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American Eclipse

Guest: David Baron A total solar eclipse will occur on August 21st of this year over the United States ...

Air Date: June 15, 2017

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Weighing the health of hot dogs without killing the BBQ

Hot dogs are a staple of summer barbecues, but they’re also notoriously bad for you.  Franks are typically a processed food, which ...

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Sex and aging

Sex and aging remains an uncomfortable topic for many people. But, a new study finds that your sex life is impacted by how old you feel, ...

Air Date: June 12, 2017

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If you’re sweating from our current heat wave, be glad you don’t live on planet KELT-9, orbiting a blue A-type star 620 light ...

Air Date: June 12, 2017

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Why the Red Knot bird lives and dies by what happens here

Everything is in place along the Delaware Bay beach on an early late Spring morning. The net is carefully folded, the cannons set at the ...

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Adjusting to two new identities: mother and cancer survivor

Jenny Leyh was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She used to dread walking into the waiting room for ea ...

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 April Anderson is trying to quit smoking after forty years. She's HIV positive, which means the negative health effects of smoking are even greater her. (Morgan Springer/for WHYY)
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Smoking is often the hardest ‘vice’ to quit

Public health experts say: Ditch your smokes. And if you have HIV, there are a few extra reasons to kick the habit soon.  At ...

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Doctors scramble to care for U.S. babies with Zika-related birth defects

When her daughter was born in January, the first thing Maria Rios checked was the baby’s head.  She’d seen the te ...

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