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And the winner of The Pulse’s Philadelphia Science Festival Challenge is…
Three very brave science enthusiasts competed for ultimate nerd glory by trying to go to as many Philadelphia Science Festival events as ...
11 years ago
ListenWho gets access to the data my Apple Watch collects?
Wearable devices are collecting valuable information about us. The question is, how can it be protected? This story is part of ...
11 years ago
ListenSalt-Rising Bread: A taste of Manifest Destiny
A unique Appalachian recipe demands one part history and one part science. John Fahey woke up before dawn and drove thirty miles t ...
11 years ago
ListenCatastrophic molts leave Camden penguins hot and lonely
…and bald. Getting rid of their old winter coats and dreaming of a beach body, two African penguins on the shores of ...
11 years ago
ListenPus, grenades and Ben Franklin: America’s first great vaccine debates
The founding father’s very real stake in the colonial war over inoculation. If you think ...
11 years ago
Listen2015 Philadelphia Science Festival kicks off this weekend, Pulse fans gear up for science challenge
Dr. Frederic Bertley, senior vice president of science/education at the Franklin Institute, gives us a quick preview of the 5th annual ev ...
11 years ago
ListenHighlights from this week’s American Association for Cancer Research Conference
Kerry Grens, a regular Pulse contributor and associate editor at The Scientist, joined The Pulse this week to tell us about the 2015 even ...
11 years ago
ListenHow crashing into an undercover cop car saved my life
The Broad Street accident set in motion a series of events that ended up saving Albert Leva’s life, and that of his brother. ...
11 years ago
ListenFor breast cancer research, Apple delivers strength in numbers approach
Apps will allow study participants to submit health data from their iPhones. Apple products, as the saying goes, solve problems we ...
11 years ago
ListenOne couple’s strategy for waging a personal, public health campaign
For two Bucks County physicians, a private battle becomes a public fight. What does it take to challenge the U.S. Food and D ...
11 years ago
ListenTypically, getting in a nasty car accident hinders your life, but in the case of 24-year-old Albert Leva, rear-ending a car full of under ...
Air Date: April 22, 2015
ListenThe science behind our sickbed cravings
WHYY conducted a highly un-scientific survey of what people ate when they had the sniffles as kids, and tried to uncover whether there is ...
11 years ago
Discussions on the impact of obesity usually circle around health issues – diabetes, heart disease, or they hit on the medical cost ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat causes knuckles to ‘crack’?
Researchers pull fingers and make a discovery. It’s a sound that may make you cringe. Or as the perpetrator, may lead to uns ...
11 years ago
ListenMoore’s Law has accurately predicted the trajectory of Silicon Valley’s exponential influence in the world, but the law might ...
11 years ago
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