
Health & Science
On 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 ...
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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 ...
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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
Listen 00:06:13Why do some patients cry after anesthesia?
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Listen 5:45Twenty-five years ago, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act, bettering the lives of many Ameri ...
Air Date: July 20, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Geophilus Hadesi discovered in Croatian caves – more than half a mile below the earth’s surface! These ‘extrem ...
Air Date: July 13, 2015
Listen 00:05:19Your baby is born prematurely… a nightmare of unknowns. We talk with Deanna Fei ...
Air Date: July 13, 2015
Listen 00:52:16Night Sky Fireworks Beyond the 4th
Call this Venus Week! Friday, Venus shows its greatest illuminated portion – and it will be at its brightest for this year on Sunda ...
Air Date: July 6, 2015
Listen 00:06:04Independence Day/Independent Life
At this time of year when we think about our nation’s independence, let’s look at what independence means in our lives. Your first s ...
Air Date: July 6, 2015
Listen 00:52:16The Sun will be at its furthest annual distance from the Earth next Monday afternoon – 94,506,507 miles. Heading outdoors to ...
Air Date: June 29, 2015
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