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Philadelphia School District headquarters at Broad and Spring Garden streets (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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More taxes for schools? Philly’s unlikely champion

The importance of funding for public education is not lost on the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, the eleven-county region’s ...

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Salon dinners

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

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Desmin and Jania Daniels
NewsWorks Tonight

Germantown cafe owners turn tragedy into triumph

A business owner’s work is never done, especially if that business is under a year old.  Desmin and Jania Daniels, the proprie ...

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The Coriell Institute in Camden
The Pulse

Exploring the reality and promise of genetic testing

Randy Scott, CEO of Invitae, which offers genetic tests through physicians, speaks with The Pulse’s Taunya English about the promis ...

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(Illustration by Tony Auth)
The Pulse

What can our genes tell us about our health risks?

A look at precision medicine and how genetics and genomics play a key role in understanding our health.  Some doctors now exa ...

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Graduate student Bahareh Jalali places tissue specimen onto Villanova University’s high-speed imaging cryomicroscope. (Photo courtesy of Paul Crane/Villanova University)
The Pulse

Is freezing the key to preserving engineered organs and tissues?

Villanova’s Jens Karlsson tells us about his work trying to determine the best methods for freezing tissues and human organs.  ...

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A small humanoid robot leads Dr. Michelle Johnson
The Pulse

A robot’s emerging role in rehab

Dr. Michelle Johnson takes us inside her rehabilitation and robotics lab at Penn Medicine to show us how robots can assist stroke victims ...

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Artist Diane Burko shows the changing landscape of the Nunatak Glacier in Alaska. (Image courtesy of Diane Burko)
The Pulse

Documenting climate change through art

Artist and photographer Diane Burko uses art to depict what scientists struggle to explain about climate change.  Artist and ...

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(Illustration by Tony Auth)
The Pulse

How to get involved in citizen science this spring

If you’re interested in counting critters, measuring rain and seeking out cherry blossoms, these projects are for you. As ev ...

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 (AP Photo/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
The Pulse

Outreach groups ‘hit the pavement’ as health insurance deadline nears

With the March 31 enrollment deadline approaching, government leaders and health advocates are pulling out all sorts of tricks to get the ...

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This graphic provided by NASA illustrates the idea that the expansion of the universe over most of it's history has been relatively gradual. The notion that a rapid period
The Pulse

This week in science: Big Bang breakthrough, ancient moss and heart tissue that beats

The Scientist’s Kerry Grens updates us on big news from the cosmology field and explains new efforts to create tissue that mimics t ...

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Former Trenton Mayor Tony Mack (Mel Evans/AP Photo
NewsWorks Tonight

What lies ahead for Trenton, post-Tony Mack?

Interim mayor George Muschal was brought in to fill out the term of former mayor Tony Mack, ousted last month following his corruption co ...

12 years ago

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Wendy Ruderman (left) and Barbara Laker
NewsWorks Tonight

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters Laker and Ruderman on their new book, ‘Busted’

The Philadelphia Daily News won its first ever Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 2010. The Tainted Justice series exposed ext ...

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NewsWorks Tonight

Vaccines made from plants could be coming to a pharmacy near you

NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller talks with Dr. Henry Daniell, Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Penn Dental Medicine, about D ...

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Is corned beef and cabbage really standard Irish fare? One expert says — not so much

Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day — a feast day providing a 24 hour respite from lenten restrictions on drinking alcohol ...

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