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On a cheese rind, war and peace

Scientists study stinky, moldy cheeses in hopes of making bigger discoveries about us. Ihsan Gurdal knows a lot about cheese. He ...

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Health officials recommend lower fluoride levels for drinking water

Worries about fluoride in water have evolved over the decades. One of the first water fluoridation studies was in Grand Rapids, Mi ...

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And the winner of The Pulse’s Philadelphia Science Festival Challenge is…

Three very brave science enthusiasts competed for ultimate nerd glory by trying to go to as many Philadelphia Science Festival events as ...

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Who gets access to the data my Apple Watch collects?

Wearable devices are collecting valuable information about us. The question is, how can it be protected? This story is part of ...

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Runners participate in the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Cross Country Championships at Belmont Plateau in 2013 (Image courtesy of David Thomas)
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2015 Broad Street Run to benefit a beloved cross country course

The forecast looks fine for the 36th annual Broad Street Run on Sunday. This year, many participants will be running for the benefit of F ...

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Salt-Rising Bread: A taste of Manifest Destiny

A unique Appalachian recipe demands one part history and one part science. John Fahey woke up before dawn and drove thirty miles t ...

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Culinary Literacy Center

Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski As part of the ongoing major renovations of the Parkway Central Library, a new dem ...

11 years ago

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Catastrophic molts leave Camden penguins hot and lonely

…and bald. Getting rid of their old winter coats and dreaming of a beach body, two African penguins on the shores of ...

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Benjamin Franklin's son Francis died of smallpox at age 4. His grave is in Christ Church Burial Ground near Independence Mall. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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Pus, grenades and Ben Franklin: America’s first great vaccine debates

The founding father’s very real stake in the colonial war over inoculation. If you think ...

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Highlights from this week’s American Association for Cancer Research Conference

Kerry Grens, a regular Pulse contributor and associate editor at The Scientist, joined The Pulse this week to tell us about the 2015 even ...

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2015 Philadelphia Science Festival kicks off this weekend, Pulse fans gear up for science challenge

Dr. Frederic Bertley, senior vice president of science/education at the Franklin Institute, gives us a quick preview of the 5th annual ev ...

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Dr. Hooman Noorchashm, a cardiac surgeon, waits with his wife, Dr. Amy Reed, an anaesthesiologist, wait in her doctor's office at Pennsylvania Hospital. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
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One couple’s strategy for waging a personal, public health campaign

For two Bucks County physicians, a private battle becomes a public fight.  What does it take to challenge the U.S. Food and D ...

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For breast cancer research, Apple delivers strength in numbers approach

Apps will allow study participants to submit health data from their iPhones. Apple products, as the saying goes, solve problems we ...

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On July 5th, 2013, Albert Leva passed out while driving and hit an undercover cop car. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)
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How crashing into an undercover cop car saved my life

The Broad Street accident set in motion a series of events that ended up saving Albert Leva’s life, and that of his brother. ...

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The science behind our sickbed cravings

WHYY conducted a highly un-scientific survey of what people ate when they had the sniffles as kids, and tried to uncover whether there is ...

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