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NewsWorks Tonight, June 6, 2018

A federal judge prohibits the federal government from penalizing Philadelphia in response to its sanctuary city policy. The Pennsylvania ...

Air Date: June 6, 2018

Listen 29:15
Chris Bolden-Newsome puts new seedlings into a row. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

Indigenous traditions get science backing

Scientists are learning from farmers and traditional healers — and documenting what powers their success.

8 years ago

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Radio Times
Science

How cities are driving animal evolution

Guest: Menno Schilthuizen Our fast-paced crowded cities aren’t just impacting our lives, they are shaping anima ...

Air Date: April 11, 2018

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Radio Times
Science

The science of perfect timing

Guest: Daniel Pink Scientists are taking a serious look at timing. What time you take a test, schedule a doctor a ...

Air Date: March 13, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 49:28

The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. (Tadhgh Rainey)
NPR
Science

Asian ticks (mysteriously) turned up on a New Jersey sheep

Investigators found hundreds on the sheep and collected nearly a thousand more from the one-acre paddock.

8 years ago

Sherry Ott says Antarctica is as close as you'll come to leaving the planet.
The Pulse
Science

Should tourists go to Antarctica?

Maybe you just want to see penguins or icebergs, but visiting the South Pole also means transforming the landscape — and adding to your carbon debt.

8 years ago

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The pied butcherbird in Australia inspired composer Hollis Taylor, who says we can consider its birdsong to be music. Photo from <a href='https://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_k59/14640105234/in/photolist-oiGneu-93tjUr-5a33c6-XU9v56-6sGgM7-og5p6i-mDuTfx-92PT2g-JEwVq-oeeNa7-j9dWU-bnSQTQ-q1jgQL-dTcC4c-92T6cS-JvB2q-2AVt7C-92PVWv-Ap8t7L-J6HNbv-ojpk4N-92PUp6-oZuXz5-bmF52m-4t7h4A-9rrDdz-Ap8nkS-j9dGL-pYqP4y-omemNA-pFVL7R-7yf2Mt-q7NcnS-paSHkb-8Fh5ZZ-ApfB3F-bDfrCQ-dqqZFv-xq3rba-P3evGT-Vum4j7-6PkSYh-4fEwnL-2AR4xD-dqr7oC-XcYiHE-XsNsWn-yEuexH-vRXfLq-BnuW3b' target='_blank' rel='noopener'> Flickr user patrickkavanagh</a>.
The Pulse
Science

A biological debate: is birdsong music?

Biologists and musicians are still wondering a question that goes back more than a century.

8 years ago

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Todd Simpson plays at Gip's Place. (Shai Ben-Yaacov/ WHYY)
The Pulse
Health

Is Todd Simpson’s musical talent a gift, or does science explain it?

Blues guitarist Todd Simpson has a genetic disorder. His family calls his innate musical talent a gift from God. Some scientists wonder if it came from a tiny blip in his DNA.

8 years ago

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(Courtesy of Adam Ford)
The Pulse
Science

In Banff, design helps critters safely cross the highway

A hidden world of pathways leads wild animals safely across busy roads, keeping ecosystems connected even as human use fragments and disturbs them.

8 years ago

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Isa Betancourt, an entomologist at Drexel University’s Academy of Natural Sciences, collects bugs. (Alan Yu/WHYY)
The Pulse
Science

How animals adapt (and maybe even evolve) to live in cities

Mice, rats, mosquitoes, lizards, and other animals are adapting to live in environments created by humans.

8 years ago

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Gift of Life Donor Program's Transplant Information Center gets a call every time someone dies in a hospital in its service area.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Organ donations from drug overdose victims rising with opioid death toll

Inside the Gift of Life Donor Program’s headquarters in Philadelphia, a room serves as a sort of mission control for organ donation.

8 years ago

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Biology professor James Cosentino (center) examines a brain at Millersville University with students (from left) Katy Good, Lexi Colgan, Clara Forney, and Jessica Hanner.
NewsWorks Tonight
Science

At Millersville University, students are clamoring for cadavers

Biology students fearful that climbing costs could end cadaver studies have mobilized to support the program. But administrators say the activism is unnecessary.

8 years ago

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3d rendering of human brain on technology background represent artificial intelligence and cyber space concept
Radio Times
Science

‘The Fear Factor,’ altruism and psychopathy

Guest: Abigail Marsh An heroic act by a stranger during car accident started ...

Air Date: December 4, 2017

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Science

Expanding DNA’s alphabet lets cells produce novel proteins

A team at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, expanded the genetic alphabet, creating two artificial DNA "letters" called X and Y.

8 years ago

Lou Farren (left) and Brad Ward both served in Vietnam, and received lungs from the same organ donor.
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Vietnam vets become ‘lung brothers’

Two veterans receive a lung each from the same donor at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia.

9 years ago

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