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A Villanova grad student holds a moss core with a black spruce in the lab (Laura Benshoff/for The Pulse).
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Villanova scientists predict oil sands’ impact on peat, climate change

Scientists study the impact of pollution on peat for clues about the future of Earth’s climate. You may be familiar with pea ...

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(Illustration by Tony Auth)
The Pulse

Waiting for sex: A 12-month experiment in abstinence

Would you voluntarily give up sex for a full year? One woman did and decided to share her story with The Pulse.  Waiting can ...

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Villanova's Josh Hart dunks the ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Georgetown
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‘Nova looks to secure #1 seed in NCAA tournament

Villanova enters this year’s Big East Tournament with an eye toward snagging one of the much coveted first seeds in the NCAA tourna ...

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The houses of Louis “Lou” Kahn

Art — Produced by Michael O’Reilly Louis Kahn was an architect known f ...

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U.S. Senator Robert Menendez says N.J. officials mismanaged the distribution of federal Sandy aid money (Screen capture via Senate video feed)
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Sen. Menendez: Feds not to blame for Sandy aid delays

Who is to blame for the slow pace of New Jersey’s recovery from Superstorm Sandy? Ne ...

11 years ago

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Reporter’s Roundtable: Corbett backs off work requirement, Nutter budget address too closed for comfort

On this week’s Reporter’s Roundtable, Elana Gordon reports on Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s move to back off his ...

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March 2014

Salon Dinners Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Located in the South Kensington Arts District, Front ...

11 years ago

NBC 10 meteorologist Sheena Parveen preparing winter storm updates
The Pulse

The science of forecasting wintry weather

Everybody loves talking about the weather. But how do we know what numbers to fret about in the first place? Remember ...

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Why are no two snowflakes the same?

An end-of-winter reminder on the science and wonder of snowflakes. Dirty snowdrifts and hard-packed piles can make it hard to appr ...

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Distiller Herman Mihalich (left) and partner John Cooper of Dad's Hat Rye in Bristol
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Local craft distiller doing ‘Rye the Right Way’ in Pa. burbs

Distiller Herman Mihalich of Dad’s Hat Rye, in Bristol, Pa., talks about his work week. The end of the work week looms. For ...

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The Pulse

How Walgreens is predicting your cold and flu spending patterns

Using algorithms to predict when each cold and flu season will hit and what medicines customers will buy.   It’s a ...

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Malacologist Amanda Lawless (left) and Teagan Keating show off two of the nearly 10 million specimens in the Academy of Natural Sciences collection. (Kimberley Paynter/for The Pulse)
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Malacologist Amanda Lawless talks marauding African land snails and other mollusks

In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’ segment, public health student Teagan Keating asks Amanda Lawless about her career ...

11 years ago

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(Illustration by Tony Auth)
The Pulse

How did the Farmers’ Almanac ‘nail’ this winter’s forecast? That’s a secret

With secret formulas, a weather “prognosticator” and nearly 200 years of history, the Farmers’ Almanac has its own take ...

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Craig Bruns of the Independence Seaport Museum flips through an old weather log book. (Kimberly Haas/for The Pulse)
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Creating a new use for old weather logs

How ships’ weather records, dating back 250 years, are helping to predict future weather patterns.  You’ve probab ...

11 years ago

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Secretary of State John Kerry looks at a barricade at the Shrine of the Fallen in Kiev
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Sen. Menendez calls Russian incursion into Ukraine ‘unacceptable’

As tensions escalate between the U.S. and Russia, NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller speaks with Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...

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