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Sleep and neurophysiology researcher Michelle Carr captures a participant during a lucid dream study at Swansea University in Wales. (Michelle Carr)
The Pulse
Mental Health
Technology

How to 'Engineer' Your Dreams and End Nightmares

Researcher Michelle Carr explores “dream engineering” in her new book “Nightmare Obscura: A Dream Engineer's Guide Through the Sleeping Mind."

Air Date: November 17, 2025

Listen 31:33
the Delaware River
Environment
New Jersey
Public Safety

Millions of gallons of raw sewage spill into Camden County’s waterways each year

The Cooper and the Delaware rivers often contain fecal bacteria levels that make it unsafe to swim, fish or even kayak in.

7 months ago

Listen 1:19
Human hand touching an android hand. (Bigstock)
The Pulse
Mental Health
Technology

How Chatbots Make Us Feel

An exploration of how AI is changing the way we feel — about ourselves and everything else.

Air Date: November 14, 2025

Listen 49:34
the exterior of the Pennsylvania Capitol
Energy
Environment
Pennsylvania

Breaking the Pa. budget impasse hinged on ditching a major climate initiative

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would have put a price on carbon. Opposed by Republicans, it was sacrificed by Democrats to get the budget deal done.

7 months ago

In this Oct. 22, 2019 file photo, pipes lay along a construction site on the Mariner East pipeline in a residential neighborhood in Exton, Pa
Energy
Environment
New Jersey
Pennsylvania

Chester County compressor station could be expanded under plans for revived pipeline project

Williams’ Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline project would mean 10 miles of pipeline in Lancaster County and an expanded compressor station in Chester County.

7 months ago

Listen 1:19
Charles Schutte, an assistant professor at Rowan University’s Department of Environmental Science
Environment
New Jersey

New Jersey Pine Barrens offer up answers to tough climate questions

Rowan University has teamed up with the state to figure out the balance between the amount of carbon emitted by New Jersey wetlands, and the amount that gets absorbed.

7 months ago

Listen 7:40
Bob Meyer looks into a microscope
Aging
Environment
Philadelphia
Sustainability

How Philadelphia seniors are tracking microplastics in streams and working to ‘leave a better world’

Members of the Senior Environment Corps wade into streams, peer through microscopes and teach kids how to identify aquatic critters.

7 months ago

Listen 5:03
Save Download Preview Hacker using laptop. Hacking the Internet.
The Pulse
Technology

Cybercrime and How Hackers Prey on Human Nature

We hear about the virus that ushered in the age of social engineering attacks, the history of cybercrime, and what led one man to become a hacker.

Air Date: October 31, 2025

Listen 55:24
Thelma Moss seen working at UCLA's Parapsychology Lab in the 1970s. (Heather Harris)
The Pulse
Media

Psychics, ghosts, auras, and the UCLA research lab that studied it all

In the 1970s, UCLA housed The Parapsychology Lab, which became a haven for those with psychic abilities and the researchers who studied them.

7 months ago

Listen 19:54
An overflowing pile of banana peels outside
Environment
Floodlight

The climate solution sitting in America’s trash

Cutting food waste is a huge potential climate win. Why are we ignoring it?

7 months ago

Traffic on 76 East coming into Center City, Philadelphia
Environment
Outdoors
Philadelphia

Why billions of gallons of raw sewage keep ending up in Philadelphia waterways

With a new analysis showing where the pollution is going, environmental advocates call on public officials to do more to stop it.

7 months ago

Stephanie L. Hansen speaks
Delaware
Energy
Innovation

Nuclear energy task force to consider feasibility for Delaware’s energy needs

The task force could consider putting a small nuclear reactor at the Dover Air Force Base.

7 months ago

Listen 1:01
A hoary bat hides in the pine inside its enclosure at the Pennsylvania Bat Conservation and Rehabilitation
Animals
Pennsylvania
Sustainability

Saving the ‘sky puppies’: How one wildlife rehabilitator is working to rescue bats in Pa.

In the face of devastating population loss throughout the region, every bat that the Pennsylvania Bat Conservation and Rehabilitation is able to save is making a difference.

7 months ago

Listen 3:57
A man stands underneath a solar-powered streetlight
Energy
Environment

Solar-powered streetlights brighten up Philly’s Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood

The solar-powered streetlights aim to help residents feel safe while reducing the community’s impact on the electric grid.

7 months ago

Listen 1:36
Man behind the glass
The Pulse

Searching for Ghosts: The Quest to Prove the Paranormal

From ghosts to ESP, a look at paranormal phenomena and the investigators who chase them.

Air Date: October 24, 2025

Listen 50:04
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