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A UD green chemist turns chicken feathers, soybeans into renewable building material

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Dispatch from a Philly pharma conference

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Caring for caregivers when their lives feel ‘a bit like war’

A look at the challenges of caregiving and the ways in which we can help those providing care for a loved one.  Every year, 6 ...

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Medical questions linger as marijuana legalization proposal hits New Jersey

What do we know about marijuana’s impact on our brains?  At the start of the New Year, as a new law went into effect le ...

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From magic mushrooms to skateboarding physics: A Philadelphia Science Festival preview

Here are the seven events you need to see at this year’s Philadephia Science Festival.  ...

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When it comes to attractiveness of beards, it’s about what’s rare, not the hair

New research shows that when beards or clean shaven faces are ...

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The Pulse – April 11, 2014

In the lead up to the Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline, we spoke with folks researching plans and trying to decide what level of c ...

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The Obamacare rollout continued: The varied fates of three enrollees

Now that the clock has wound down for health care enrollment through the Affordable Care Act this year, The Pulse thought it a prime time ...

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In a sea of mobile health devices, how do we know which ones are most effective?

The number of digital health applications is exploding, but who’s keeping tabs on the safety and effectiveness of all the options? ...

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The science behind fixing Philadelphia’s $550,000 pothole problem

The streets are lurking with a dangerous science experiment that’s been brewing underground for months. Potholes are a worst ...

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Mapping microbes across the globe

Microbes. Most of us are generally aware that these micro-organisms are all around us, but only the malevolent kind seem to make it into ...

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3 science stories not to miss: Saturn’s moon, stressed-out DNA, and Italian violins

The Scientist’s Kerry Grens updates us on a discovery on Saturn’s moon, new research correlating stress with telomere length ...

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A good sense of humor helps in coping with epilepsy

In this week’s Patient Files, epilepsy advocate Dan Dougherty talks about the need for a light heart when dealing with a heavy diag ...

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