
The Pulse Archive
If it weren’t for our understanding of the chemical process that creates our favorite beers, we’d still be drinking spoiled a ...
11 years ago
ListenPhiladelphia woman meets the donor who saved her life
A Philadelphia woman is likely to enjoy many more Thanksgivings following a successful bone marrow transplant. Frances ...
11 years ago
ListenLearning from medical mistakes, and recognizing how they impact patients’ lives
It was supposed to be a fairly routine procedure; a scheduled laparoscopic hysterectomy. For Miriam Gilbert of New Jersey, it turn ...
11 years ago
ListenWhen to be concerned about your child’s fever
What should I do? Choose your child’s age: Under 3 months ...
11 years ago
Training provides glimpse into doctors’ struggles with tough patient conversations
If you or a loved one has ever been diagnosed with a serious illness, you may or not have remembered all the details of those visits with ...
11 years ago
ListenPresident Obama’s carbon reduction agreement with China this week was criticized by Republican leaders including Mitch McConnell, w ...
Air Date: November 14, 2014
ListenIs cancer a survival tactic on the part of our cells? A physicist shares his theory
The quest for a cure for cancer has become such a fixation of modern medicine that the very phrase has taken on a second life in modern p ...
11 years ago
ListenFinding our galaxy’s most distant stars
Two new stars are found 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. Ask astronomer ...
11 years ago
ListenCould there be a link between artificial turf and cancer?
Millions of old tires are ground up and sprinkled on artificial fields each year. But is the practice safe? In October, University ...
11 years ago
ListenThis week in science: Philae landing, mouse control and cat genes
It’s been a busy week in the science world, perhaps best symbolized by the explosion of the “#cometlanding” hashtag on ...
11 years ago
ListenWill the GOP have a climate plan in 2016?
Climate change hurtled to a newly prominent role in both domestic and foreign policy this week after President Obama reached a landmark c ...
11 years ago
ListenVillanova University unveils interactive CAVE classroom
Some people look good in 3-D glasses. Frank Klassner is one of the them. The Villanova University computer science professor happi ...
11 years ago
ListenTongue cancer survivor thankful for her voice and a pushy dentist
Twenty years ago Leslie Handler went for a routine dental appointment. It was her first time with a new dentist and she remembers being ...
11 years ago
ListenPhilly health experts offer five key tips on navigating ACA enrollment
Nov. 15 marks the start of year two of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Last year’s launch was a bit of a disaster, s ...
11 years ago
ListenWhat puts forests more at risk — climate change or attempts to counter it?
Along the Eastern Seaboard, forests are expanding, but also showing signs of stress. Some blame the stress on climate change. Others insi ...
11 years ago
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