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Technology

The Apollo 11 Lunar Module ascent stage in lunar orbit in 1969 with with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin aboard. The Earth rises above the lunar horizon. (Photo credit: NASA)
The Pulse
Science

Why haven’t we gone back to the moon?

Short answer: money

7 years ago

Listen 11:34
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NPR
Health

At your wits’ end with a screen-obsessed kid? Read this

Technology overuse ranked as the No. 1 fear of parents of teenagers in a national survey last year.

7 years ago

The U.S. President Donald Trump's Twitter feed is shown on a computer screen on Thursday, June 27, 2019, in New York. President Donald Trump’s next tweet might come with a warning label. Starting Thursday tweets that Twitter deems in the public interest, but which violate the service’s rules, will be obscured by a warning explaining the violation. Users will have to tap through the warning to see the underlying message. (Jenny Kane/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump’s next tweet could get a warning label

Starting Thursday, tweets that Twitter deems to involve matters of public interest, but which violate the service's rules.

7 years ago

Personal online security and password encryption data transfer as an internet secure technology for private information in the dark web transfer in a 3D illustration style.
Politics & Policy

What’s your data worth to Big Tech? Bill would compel answer

As Congress bears down on big tech, two senators want to force giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon to tell users what data they're collecting and how much its worth.

7 years ago

Gur Kimchi, vice president of Prime Air, talks about Amazon's drone delivery service. Federal officials recently approved a patent for the company to explore allowing its drones to provide
NPR
Money

Amazon explores having its drones provide ‘home surveillance’ for customers

The tech giant is moving closer to a future in which customers order drones to hover around a home and scan for things like a garage door left open or a broken window.

7 years ago

Because the plug isn't reversible, connecting a USB device to a computer can often be a frustrating experience. (Joe Kohen/Invision/AP)
NPR
Community

Ever plugged a USB in wrong? Of course you have. Here’s why.

Some call it the USB paradox, the seemingly impossible process of making a 50-50 guess wrong twice.

7 years ago

Celiah Aker works on her business and administrative services class at her desk at home (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
Radio Times
Education

Cyber charter schools

A new study shows that many students enrolled in Pennsylvania’s cyber charter schools are not getting a quality education.

Air Date: June 21, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
The Pulse
Science

The Science of Everyday Objects

From penicillin to the moon landing, we have science to thank for humanity’s greatest achievements. But science has also helped advance ...

Air Date: June 21, 2019

Listen 48:07
Child wear hat closing his ears for fear loud noise

For children in the city, how loud is too loud?

Being aware of noise in your child’s environment is important for hearing and cognitive development, studies show. Apps can help identify quiet spaces.

7 years ago

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Jesse Gelsinger, 18, in this undated family photo, poses near a statue at the University of Pennsylvania. Gelsinger, who died Sept. 16, 1999, had signed up to be part of an experimental gene therapy study on ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, or OTC. (Family Photo via The Arizona Daily Star/AP Photo)
The Why
Health

The Philadelphia tragedy that changed gene therapy

Twenty years ago, an 18-year-old's death while undergoing a Penn clinical trial changed gene therapy.

Air Date: June 18, 2019

Listen 13:55
For decades, inventors have tried to re-engineer the standard white cane used by people who are blind or visually impaired. But it's a tricky task. (Image courtesy of WeWALK/Kürşat Ceylan)
The Pulse
Science

Why is creating electronic canes for the blind so hard?

People who are visually impaired know what works for them and what doesn’t. They’d rather innovate their own technologies.

7 years ago

Listen 11:23
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Democracy and truth

American democracy has always had a difficult relationship with the truth, according to University of Pennsylvania history professor, Sophia Rosenfeld.

Air Date: June 12, 2019 10:00 am

Listen 49:15
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Courts & Law
Billy Penn

Philly courts refuse to name security firm hired to fix infected systems

In a move experts call highly unusual, Philadelphia officials are refusing to name the cybersecurity firm the city has contracted to help clean up the court system.

7 years ago

Several of the products available from Proctor and Gamble (Courtesy of Loop)
Science

TerraCycle’s Loop launches reusable packaging to enthusiasm — and a little sticker shock

The program has launched in the mid-Atlantic region, allowing customers to order household products in reusable containers that they can return.

7 years ago

Lawyers gather in the hallway at Philadelphia City Hall that houses the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania. A computer virus has shut down the court's website. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
The Why
Courts & Law

Computer virus still crippling Philly courts and their online systems

Normal court proceedings have slowed or stopped since Philly's First Judicial District shut down the court websites after getting a virus almost a month ago.

Air Date: June 10, 2019

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