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Working from their couches, amateur astronomers make real scientific contributions
As data from large telescopes becomes more and more readily available to everyone, hobby astronomers are helping make true contributions ...
11 years ago
ListenMy 10 days in the ‘concussion cave’
A blow to the head left NPR producer Theo Balcomb with a minor traumatic brain injury and a deep need to sleep and heal. Her sister took ...
11 years ago
ListenLosing weight at home, with the help of a video game
Paul Ballas has struggled with lifelong obesity. But using his Xbox fitness to work out at home, Ballas has dropped close to 60 pounds in ...
11 years ago
ListenHow long is too long for post-concussion recovery?
Ten days, a dark room, no cell phone and no television – that’s how ...
11 years ago
ListenHow emotions, ideas and senses influence our color perception
In the 1950s, the DuPont chemical company, based in Delaware, came out with a product that might have made the biggest impact on how you ...
11 years ago
ListenThe abstract art of Charles Burwell
Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly We pull up into a hidden lot behind the Liberty Market on Front St. As the Market Frankfo ...
11 years ago
Getting home from the hospital, and staying there
Shadowing a nurse as she follows patients out of the hospital reveals a complex health system both struggling and working to help patient ...
11 years ago
ListenMexican immigrants find a home at Norristown church
The documentary “Adelante” focuses on the distinct cultures, traditions, and personalities of the parishioners who have colla ...
11 years ago
ListenValentine’s Day weddings a big deal in DelCo boroughs
Want to make that Valentines date official? On a budget? Borough mayors in suburban Philadelphia have been helping people get hitc ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat’s next for the FDA, after Commissioner Hamburg steps down in March?
Last week, U.S. Food and Drug Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg announced she would step down at the end of March. Hamburg, one of ...
11 years ago
ListenHow rock salt melts ice, and why less is often more
The question is not, “To salt, or not to salt?” It’s is, “What kind of salt? And in what form?” Each ...
11 years ago
ListenHow a romantic gesture helped bring surgical gloves to American operating rooms
At the end of the 19th century, doctors performed surgery bare-knuckled, sometimes literally up to their elbows in blood and guts. ...
11 years ago
ListenA new watchdog organization hopes to help to keep science facts in check. Scientific and medical issues can turn into political fo ...
11 years ago
ListenIn quest for fidelity, a model from the animal kingdom
Hornbill birds, native to Africa and Asia, come in dozens of different species. Some, like the striking rhinoceros hornbill, have a bony ...
11 years ago
ListenCould the next great bottle of wine you buy be from… (gulp)… England?
Buzzfeed.com reporter/editor Sandra Allen joins us to discuss the troubling news that climate change is bringing to the world of fine win ...
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