Health & Science
Protecting 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
Listen 00:04:20Next Sunday is Beltane or Bealtane, the cross-quarter day between spring and summer. Once upon a time, this was actually seen as 1st day ...
Air Date: May 3, 2016
Listen 00:06:41Watershed moment in space exploration
Launch vehicle provider (United Launch Alliance) and habitat provider (Bigelow Aerospace) announce alliance to launch a private space hab ...
Air Date: April 26, 2016
Listen 00:07:20Philadelphia Science Festival kicks-off Friday with Astronomy Night
Astronomy Night is this Friday evening at 30 locations across the city. Find locations at philasciencefestival.org. This festival runs fr ...
Air Date: April 18, 2016
Listen 00:06:39Researchers have known for some time that there’s a link between heart disease and depression. But – if the depression is tre ...
Air Date: April 18, 2016
Listen 00:03:17Quasar 3C 273, that’s what’s hot. – 18 trillion degrees F! One of the largest black holes ever seen is discovere ...
Air Date: April 11, 2016
Listen 00:06:58This Friday, a SpaceX supply mission will carry among other things, a 3,100 lb inflatable habitat test module built by Bigelow Aerospace. ...
Air Date: April 5, 2016
Listen 00:05:42The Stresses of Medical School
Going to medical school is stressful – that’s not surprising But new research finds that the demands, cost, and competitive natur ...
Air Date: April 4, 2016
Listen 00:03:09ATLAS maps movement of asteroids
Losing sleep over killer asteroids? A new system that takes 1000 images a night and can immediately determine if an object is close to ea ...
Air Date: March 29, 2016
Listen 00:07:37Each year, close to 40,000 Americans die by suicide – and researchers are always looking for new ways to prevent these deaths. But – ...
Air Date: March 28, 2016
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