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A person bags psilocybin mushrooms at a pop-up cannabis market in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
The Pulse
Mental Health
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Social Justice

How researchers and advocates of color are forging their own paths in psychedelic-assisted therapy

After a long history of erasure, communities of color are reclaiming psychedelic traditions to heal from trauma.

6 years ago

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Psychedelic Mushrooms
The Pulse

Psychedelics and Therapy

After a decades-long hiatus, researchers are taking a fresh look at the potential of psychedelics in therapy. Could substances like ketam ...

Air Date: January 10, 2020

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a pair of glasses focused on a forest
The Pulse
Biology
Environment

Vision 2020

The New Year is often a time for a fresh start. We reflect on our past habits, and resolve to do better — eat healthier, work harder, o ...

Air Date: January 3, 2020

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David Fajgenbaum leads a research lab at the University of Pennsylvania dedicated to studying Castleman disease, a rare illness that nearly killed him five times. He has recently shifted his focus to look at ways of treating COVID-19. (Courtesy of David Fajgenbaum)
The Pulse
Biology
Medicine
Philadelphia

5 lessons one doctor learned from the times he almost died

How five near-death experiences drove David Fajgenbaum to live his life to the fullest, and discover a novel treatment for Castleman's disease.

6 years ago

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A United Airlines Boeing 737 Max airplane takes off in the rain. (Ted S. Warren/ AP Photo)
The Pulse
Environment
Transportation

What happens when academics fly less to conferences?

Sometimes, it means better conferences, as collaboration and access improve.

6 years ago

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The Pulse
Medicine

The Pulse’s favorite episodes of the year

Here’s a list of some favorite episodes, curated by The Pulse team members themselves.

6 years ago

U.S. astronaut Christina Koch set a new record Saturday, Dec. 28, for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission. (Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)
Gender
Space

U.S. astronaut sets record for longest spaceflight by a woman

A U.S. astronaut set a record Saturday for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, breaking the old mark of 288 days with about two months left in her mission.

6 years ago

Seabeach amaranth plant
Down the Shore
Biology
Environment
New Jersey

N.J. officials report 600% increase of endangered plant along state’s beaches

An annual plant census along New Jersey's beaches reveals a significant surge of a federally threatened and endangered plant species, state officials announced.

6 years ago

Joey Clawson at one of his Christmas tree stands on the first day of harvest. He grows about 95,000 firs on his operation. (Irina Zhorov for WHYY)
NPR
Environment

A Christmas tree thrives on farms, struggles in the wild

The Fraser fir is found in a lot of homes around Christmas. But its wild cousins have been in decline for almost a century because of a small invasive pest.

6 years ago

This active drill site on state forest land in Tioga County will tap the Utica Shale formation, Oct. 2019. (Susan Phillips/WHYY)
Environment
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Natural gas production headed for a slow-down in 2020

Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia accounted for one-third of the country's shale gas production in 2019.

6 years ago

Trees
The Pulse
Biology
Environment

The Future of Trees

Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th ...

Air Date: December 20, 2019

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Goats from the Philly Goat Project eat the leaves from invasive vines to clear the way for landscapers to identify and cut down English ivy to save hundred year old trees.  (Jessica Kourkounis/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Environment
Philadelphia

Feed a goat, save a tree — or a whole yard’s worth

When English ivy vines threatened her family’s "private park," a homeowner enlisted some hungry, four-legged assistants.

7 years ago

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Nurdles on Ferrycraigs Beach on the Firth of Forth, Scotland. (Reid R. Frazier/StateImpact Pennsylvania)
Energy
International
Pennsylvania
StateImpact Pennsylvania

Scotland is turning Pennsylvania shale gas into plastic. But what happens to it next?

Taxes and bans on single use plastics try to combat plastics in the oceans.

7 years ago

Workers harvest Fraser fir Christmas trees on Joey Clawson’s farm, outside Boone, NC. (Irina Zhorov/For WHYY)
The Pulse
Biology
Environment
Outdoors

On the tree farm, a Christmas favorite thrives. In the wild, it struggles

The balsam wooly adelgid has devastated Appalachia’s native Fraser firs. On a North Carolina farm, their domesticated cousins grow with TLC.

7 years ago

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SpaceX's Starlink mission
Skytalk
Space

Let There Be Light (but not too much)

SpaceX will coat one side of a satellite to reduce brightness interference when observing from Earth. They intend to test one unit on the ...

Air Date: December 14, 2019

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