
The Pulse Archive
Long distance listening: A special layer of ocean makes eavesdropping easier
How a layer of the Earth’s oceans unlock acoustic mysteries. Maurice Ewing and a team of American scientists set off from W ...
10 years ago
ListenTax preparers brace themselves for clients who went without health insurance
There’s a new reason to be nervous about your next tax appointment…as if you needed one. Darren Dabner just wants to g ...
10 years ago
ListenAnt guts provide insights into how symbiosis works
For this edition of “So, What Do You Do?,” a New Jersey writer sits down with a Drexel biologist to talk about the organisms ...
10 years ago
ListenTax season has an added wrinkle this year—the Affordable Care Act. As a result of the mandate to carry health coverage, those who went ...
Air Date: January 29, 2015
ListenPortrait series focuses on people ‘Torn Apart’ by workplace injury
In 2009, George Beerley was operating heavy equipment at a construction site near Doylestown, Pa., when his machinery jammed. In 2 ...
10 years ago
ListenWhy forecasting weather for the Philadelphia area is so hard to do
Many are calling this week’s hyped up weather forecast a blizzard bust for the Philadelphia region. So what happened? Tom Th ...
10 years ago
ListenPOTUS: Precision Medicine Initiative will bring us closer to a cancer cure
So, what exactly is “precision medicine”? President Barack Obama is launching a “Precision Medicine Initiative.& ...
10 years ago
ListenClimate change to Philly trees: it’s not 1910 anymore
The Philadelphia Parks Department is launching experiments at three different test sites in city parks in the hopes of designing a forest ...
10 years ago
ListenPortrait project brings stories of recovery out of ‘the rooms’
Jillian Bauer has found a lot of support in “the rooms.” That’s shorthand for meetings of recovery groups, like ...
10 years ago
ListenPiggy-backing on the recent news that 2014 was the hottest year on record, President Obama made a passionate plea for the need to address ...
Air Date: January 23, 2015
ListenNew blood test could indicate long-term severity of concussions
Over the past 15 years, scientists and physicians have come to realize that concussions are very serious injuries. In fact, about 20 perc ...
10 years ago
ListenWith more adversity comes more love for couple dealing with cancer
Imagine you’re young, and totally healthy. For a few nights, you wake up in cold sweats, feel generally lousy, have some respirator ...
10 years ago
ListenSparking innovation at Jefferson’s new ‘Accelerator Zone’
Nestled between a hoagie shop and an Italian restaurant, a former administrative building on South 10th Street in Philadelphia is now an ...
10 years ago
ListenA new wave of lower cost drugs? FDA a step closer to approving first biosimilar in U.S.
It’s a move that some experts say could save the health system billions of dollars. And, it could soon be a reality. ...
10 years ago
ListenThere’s nothing green about flying…
…except maybe the “vacant” sign on the lavatory. As the constant drumbeat about climate change and environmental ...
10 years ago
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