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City Councilwoman Cindy Bass applauds after pushing the 'detonator' that sent the Queen Lane Apartment demolition in motion on Saturday. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
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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 ...

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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

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Mütter 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 ...

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Young 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 ...

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Are 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 ...

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Climate 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 ...

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State-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 ...

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Christina Love
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The 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. ...

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The Pulse – September 5, 2014

Scientists 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

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What 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 ...

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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz spent a lot of time at the  Scott Memorial Library of Jefferson University
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Dr. 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 ...

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Dr. Abdalmajid Katranji
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Going 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.  ...

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Karyn Reyher has a hybrid cochlear implant to account for her severe to profound hearing loss at high frequencies. (Kelly Reyher/for The Pulse)
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Turning 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 ...

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The world's largest radio telescope near Arecibo
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Fast 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 ...

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A single toe bone of Dreadnoughtus schrani weighs approximately 15 pounds. Only one was found. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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Philly 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 ...

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