Health & Science
Enjoy the final few minutes of Spring, Summer solstice begins in … just a few minutes! Also full moon today. ...
Air Date: June 20, 2016
Listen 00:03:32A new book deals candidly with a very difficult topic. For decades, history professor Raymond Douglas kept a terrible secret. As ...
Air Date: June 20, 2016
Listen 00:03:19Pioneer 10 left the solar system – 33 years ago today. Traveling at 28,000 mph, the NASA spacecraft will pass the bright star of th ...
Air Date: June 14, 2016
Listen 00:04:52New studies of possible Planet Nine suggest it came from outer space – captured from one of our sun’s sibling stars not long ...
Air Date: June 7, 2016
Listen 00:05:50When the gloves came off, Muhammad Ali was a fighter for those suffering from Parkinson’s Disease
For many people, Muhammad Ali was a champion both inside and out of the ring. For people living with Parkins ...
9 years ago
Listen 4:43Bodysnatching and the curious case of One-Eyed Joe
This piece is part of our “Bodies” show. Take a look at the rest of our stories here. ...
9 years ago
Listen 24:18How are our bodies regulated after death?
Thousands of people donate their bodies to science each year, to be dissected by wide-eyed med students during their first-year anatomy c ...
9 years ago
Listen 5:25Mars is at its closest approach to Earth for this year. Surprisingly there are no rumors this time around about Mars appearing as large a ...
Air Date: May 31, 2016
Listen 00:03:54In Philadelphia, finding dignity for bodies left unclaimed
At Laurel Hill Cemetery in Northwest Philadelphia, it’s easy to overlook a couple of small patches of grass in the center of the s ...
10 years ago
Listen 6:02Protecting the dead, both body and soul
In the Jewish tradition of shemira, the deceased are comforted until burial. This piece is part of our “Bodies” ...
10 years ago
Listen 4:44Autopsies contribute valuable scientific data, but they’ve become rare
Dr. Robert Ownbey, a pathologist who heads up the Hahnemann Hospital ...
10 years ago
Listen 5:15Beyond the eight planets orbiting our sun… the next largest objects are the cohort of so-called Dwarf Planets. Tomorrow marks the 5 ...
Air Date: May 24, 2016
Listen 00:04:52Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s $94 M upgrade to world’s most powerful fusion experiment
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) just celebrated a milestone in its research on fusion energy. After nearly four years of r ...
10 years ago
ListenThe newest Kepler satellite data reveals startling information about frequency of earth-like planets – 3,200 planets now confirmed, ...
Air Date: May 16, 2016
Listen 0:05:27Astronomers may have discovered a way to ‘see’ dark matter using gravitational lens distortions to see perturbations in Einst ...
Air Date: May 9, 2016
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