
Health & Science
Don’t Miss the Harvest Moon Eclipse
Autumn officially arrives Wednesday; at 4:21 am, Earth arrives at that point in its orbit where the rotational axis is in a position that ...
Air Date: September 21, 2015
Listen 00:07:44This is the last week of summer. Autumn arrives next Wednesday. NASA’s New Horizons is en route to a 35 mile-wide iceball on ...
Air Date: September 14, 2015
Listen 00:04:32Exploring 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.
9 years ago
ListenFamily relationships, workplace worries, difficult world events – for 30 years, psychologist Dan Gottlieb has helped us navigate our da ...
Air Date: September 14, 2015
Listen 00:52:16New 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 ...
9 years ago
ListenItty 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
Listen 00:05:3520 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
Listen 00:08:15On 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
Listen 00:05:21[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 ...
10 years ago
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
Listen 00:07:58Surprise! When your hospital is in-network but your doctor isn’t
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
10 years ago
Listen 9:11Perseid 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
Listen 00:07:22A 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
Listen 00:05:41Giant 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
Listen 00:07:2746 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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