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Health & Science

Lillian Peck looking a shark in the mouth during a Gills Club meeting. (Courtesy of Hillary Peck)
The Pulse
Science

Sharks aren’t just for boys: Gills Club inspires aspiring female biologists

It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...

9 years ago

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Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. (Photo by Shannon Grant, courtesy of Brianna Wu)
The Pulse
Science

Game developer wants to take her cultural critique to Congress

Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...

9 years ago

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Why are kids today so anxious?

Anxiety disorders are rising in kids. In their weekly conversation, psychologist Dan Gottlieb and WHYY’ ...

Air Date: March 20, 2017

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Before she was a novelist, Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist. (Photo via Library of Congress)
The Pulse
Science

Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a cultural anthropologist first

The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...

9 years ago

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Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painting
Voices in the Family
Health

Creativity: Life From the Inside Out

Dr. Dan Gottlieb explores the role of psychology in creativity through the lives of artists. He looks at Van Gogh’s struggle with menta ...

Air Date: March 17, 2017

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StateImpact
Science

Sunoco rejects township’s Mariner East complaint to PUC

9 years ago

StateImpact
Science

DRBC says it’s still weighing gas drilling rules, but no decision on the horizon

9 years ago

StateImpact
Science

Battle re-emerging over fracking along Delaware River

9 years ago

 Delaware environmental regulators issued a cease and desist order Monday against the former International Petroleum Corp.' facility in Wilmington for transporting hazardous wastes. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Science

Troubled oil recycler cited for hazardous waste violations

A Wilmington oil recycling plant fined last month by a federal judge for environmental crimes was issued a cease and desist order Monday ...

9 years ago

two women walk down a hospital hallway
Voices in the Family
Health

Should we talk about our health problems?

People share LOTS of very personal health information online these days – with virtual strangers – ...

Air Date: March 13, 2017

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aeronautical engineer Mary Jackson at work
Skytalk
Science

Hidden Figures

This week, Derrick focuses attention on the contributions of minorities and women to the field of astronomy. There are many birth ...

Air Date: March 13, 2017

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 Transplant pioneer Dr. Thomas Starzl is shown on Nov. 10, 1989, overseeing a liver transplant operation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Starzl died at the age of 90 on March 4 at his home in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar/File)
Speak Easy
Health

Remembering Thomas Starzl and the frenzied work that advanced organ transplants

Thomas Starzl, whose death at age 90 was in the news last week, was the most driven man I've ever met.

9 years ago

 (Erwin Morales/<a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/vonkinder/156957292/'>Flickr Creative Commons</a>)
Speak Easy
Health

Empty chairs at the cancer center: The threat of ACA repeal

I spend a lot of time in the place no one wants to be — the cancer center. Every two weeks I’m there with my husband. He is the p ...

9 years ago

 Have wax in your ears? Leave it alone, doctors say! (Maiken Scott/WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Seriously, leave your earwax alone

In healthy people, earwax is self-cleaning. “It’s a useful thing,” says Fuad Baroody, an ear, nose, and throat s ...

9 years ago

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 A large cluster of adult flesh flies, Sarcophaga bullata, feeding on bovine liver. (Photo courtesy of David Rivers)
The Pulse
Health

Bugs on bodies: how flies can help and hurt a crime scene

It’s difficult to gross out David Rivers, a professor of biology at Loyola University Maryland. He’s a forensic entomologist, ...

9 years ago

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