Health & Science
The total eclipse of the sun: where, when, how and wow
Guests: Jay Pasachoff, Derrick Pitts, Dave Goldberg The excitement is growing in anticipation of Monday’ ...
Air Date: August 18, 2017
Listen 00:50:00The story behind Philly’s heroin encampment
As the controversial spot closes down, we take a tour of its history. There’s a part of Philadelphia, just a few miles north ...
9 years ago
Listen 13:03Monday’s eclipse to provide rare research opportunity for scientists
Paul Halpern, physics professor at University of the Sciences explains how scientists use this rare event in their research. The g ...
9 years ago
Listen 8:38A star-studded trip to witness the 1973 eclipse
Retired Pennsylvania science teacher Stephen Berr made plans two years ago to witness this year’s solar eclipse in Driggs, Idaho. ...
9 years ago
Listen 3:59New Jersey offers incentives for psychiatrists to set up shop in rural, low-income areas
Amid a national shortage of psychiatrists, residents of rural and low-income areas feel are feeling the pinch more strongly. Ech ...
9 years ago
What’s a cloud forest without clouds?
Scientists say climate change could dry out misty jungles in the Andes of Peru. Along mountainsides in Central and South America, ...
9 years ago
Listen 6:08Returning restaurants’ oyster shells back to the water
Shell recycling keeps them out of landfills and improves ecosystem health. About 120 miles east of Washington, D.C., Delaware’s ...
9 years ago
Listen 6:44Gulf Coast land loss threatens food sovereignty
Pointe-au-Chien and other Louisiana tribes want to protect native ways of eating. Native Americans living along Louisiana’s ...
9 years ago
Listen 9:46When natural history collections bow to other priorities
In 1962, Neil Douglas accepted a position in the brand new biology department of what is now the University of Louisiana Monroe. The scho ...
9 years ago
ListenStudy finds one in three Philadelphia residents used an opioid last year
One third of adults in Philadelphia have used an opioid in the last year, and the majority of those drugs came directly from a doctor. Th ...
9 years ago
Delaware horse infected with West Nile
A horse in Delaware was euthanized after it was infected with West Nile Virus. This is the first time this year a horse has been i ...
9 years ago
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