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Hosted by Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, Radiolab is a show about curiosity. Where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience.

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 Myrna Schwartz, a neuroscientist who runs a language aphasia research lab at the Moss Rehabilitation Institute, says self-imposed isolation is the toughest thing for speech aphasic patients to combat. (Emma Lee/for The Pulse)
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Battling the communication barriers and isolation that often come with speech aphasia

On this week’s show, we ...

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Doctors attempt to restart a patient's heart. Unfortunately
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Bringing people back from the dead, a messy business

An author wonders if CPR is always warranted. Everyone has seen a movie or TV show where one character is drowning or choking or h ...

11 years ago

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Drexel students move a vertabra weighing several hundred pounds. The bones of one of the world's largest dinosaurs are being shipped back to Argentina where they were found. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Dreadnoughtus prepares to go home

After more than a decade spent uncovering, cleaning, studying and preserving the bones of one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, D ...

11 years ago

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An example of a no-frills tDCS unit. (Photo courtesy of thebrainstimulator.net)
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With batteries included, brain stimulation devices prepare to go mainstream

The next wave in wearable technology will attempt to open the mind. The founders of Halo Neuroscience don’t have a tidy elev ...

11 years ago

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(Kimberly Paynter/for The Pulse)
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When the words won’t come — recovering from a series of strokes in my 30s

I wanted to read the lines so desperately, to force the words from the pages into my mind and out of my mouth. But they were ceasing to b ...

11 years ago

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The Afflictions explores causes
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Penn doctor releases fictional encyclopedia of imaginary diseases

Imagine a kind of amnesia wherein everybody forgets about you (Amnesia inversa). Imagine a disease that causes you to contract the infirm ...

11 years ago

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How doctors are framing the flu conversation, after strain mutation

After the big announcement that this year’s flu vaccine may offer less protection than expected, some doctors are scrambling for th ...

11 years ago

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The Pulse – Dec. 12 2014

Hate to break it to you, but your fitbit is old news. Electronic brain stimulation (think battery-powered headbands that help improve the ...

Air Date: December 10, 2014

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 Maiken Scott interviews Ken Lacovara, Drexel University paleontology professor, about his team's discovery of Dreadnoughtus. (Photo courtesy of Daniel Burke)
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The Pulse celebrates 1 year with live studio production

WHYY-FM’s award-winning health and science program turned one this month and its team celebrated with a one hour, in-studio perform ...

11 years ago

A cystic fibrosis patient receives one of his twice daily treatments for cystic fibrosis (AP Images
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With big money comes big questions for Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

When a breakthrough cystic fibrosis drug with a sticker price of more than $300,000 per year hit the market two years ago, the cost raise ...

11 years ago

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The Pulse: Things that made us go ‘Hmmm…’

WHYY’s The Pulse celebrates its first birthday this week, capping off a yea ...

11 years ago

Josie Dillard (left) and Danielle Kreeger. (J. Woods/ The Pulse)
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Getting her hands dirty is part of the job, and the fun, for environmental scientist

Pretty much everyone is familiar with ecology, but it’s a broad term and it covers a lot of territory.   For our segmen ...

11 years ago

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The Pulse – Dec. 5 2014

A quick ethics test: Should a not-for-profit foundation make $3.3 billion selling royalty rights for a drug that treats its own donors an ...

Air Date: December 4, 2014

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Karen Taylor and Ron Coleman lead a workshop on hearing voices in Philadelphia. Participants traveled from as far away as Wisconsin and Florida to attend. (Kimberly Paynter/for The Pulse)
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Bargaining with the voices in our heads

New treatments for a stigmatized group of patients emerge. Berta Britz hid the voices she’s heard for a long time, spending ...

11 years ago

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Members of the Final Frontier Medical Devices team geeked out in Star Trek gear
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Stranger than fiction: Star Trek’s ‘tricorder’ could soon be a reality

The tale of a high-stakes medical device competition inspired by a sci-fi classic and a local team boldly going into the finals. I ...

11 years ago

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