
The Pulse Archive
Mixing explosives with gravity – the controlled science behind implosions
In just 15 seconds on Saturday, Queen Lane Apartments vanished from the sky. A nearly 60-year stay in Philadelphia over in l ...
11 years ago
ListenThe Pulse – September 12, 2014
Scientists hold the keys to our future, though few of them succeed at holding our attention long when they’re discussing their work ...
Air Date: September 12, 2014
ListenMütter Museum serves as magnet for artists looking for inspiration
One of the plays opening this weekend during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival is “The Body Lautrec,” about the famous 19th ce ...
11 years ago
ListenYoung man and the sea: Hemingway’s Philly connection
To mark the anniversary of Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, an Academy of Natural Sciences fellow is among 14 Americans ...
11 years ago
ListenAre lawmakers interfering with the doctor-patient relationship?
Doctors are sending up red flags about laws that they say block them from giving patients independent medical care and advice. They call ...
11 years ago
ListenClimate change threatens nation’s birds, new report finds
A new national report from the Audubon Society paints a very grim picture for the country’s bird populations. A new national ...
11 years ago
ListenState-run programs help nurses detox together and stay in their scrubs
“I’m smart, I’m using a clean needle every time, I’m smart and then…I’m in.” It’s ...
11 years ago
ListenThe art of explaining science… and why it’s so hard to do
What makes a scientist a good communicator? It turns out the scientific community has become more interested in figuring that out. ...
11 years ago
ListenScientists from Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia have just named a brand-new dinosaur—they dubbed ...
Air Date: September 5, 2014
ListenWhat the Medicaid expansion means for those ‘in the gap’
Last week, the Corbett administration announced a Medicaid-alternative agreement with the federal government that would allow more people ...
11 years ago
ListenDr. Thomas Mütter — getting to know the man behind the macabre collection
In her new book, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz captures Mütter’s journey from young, sickly orphan to beloved surgeon and teacher ...
11 years ago
ListenGoing back to the basics in Syria with physician Abdalmajid Katranji
Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji has been treating badly wounded patients in a bare bones operation room for the past four years in Syria. ...
11 years ago
ListenTurning up the volume on a quiet world
A million Americans have trouble hearing high-pitched sounds, especially vets and people working industrial jobs. But makers of a new hyb ...
11 years ago
ListenFast radio bursts – deep space’s newest noisemaker
Scientists are starting to hear a new kind of message from far across the universe, the question is what (or who) is sending it? I ...
11 years ago
ListenPhilly scientists discover new gigantic dinosaur, ‘Dreadnoughtus’ [photos]
A Drexel-led team of scientists named a newly discovered dinosaur Thursday, a sauropod from southern Patagonia dubbed “Dreadnoughtu ...
11 years ago
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