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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 ...
12 years ago
ListenLocal 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 ...
12 years ago
ListenHow 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 ...
12 years ago
ListenMalacologist 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 ...
12 years ago
ListenHow 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 ...
12 years ago
ListenCreating 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 ...
12 years ago
ListenSen. 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 ...
12 years ago
ListenPhase I study finds ‘gene editing’ aimed at making patients’ cells resistant to HIV to be safe
For decades, HIV has outpaced the scientists trying to eradicate it, often morphing and hiding deep in patients’ bodies. Researcher ...
12 years ago
ListenMaking percussion instruments out of pill bottles, and other stories of living with cystic fibrosis
Philadelphia musician and recording store owner Brian McTear talks about ‘chasing life expectancy’ with cystic fibrosis. ...
12 years ago
ListenPredicting weather: mostly true with a chance of error
Tom Thunstrom of Phillyweather.net tells us what we can – and can’t – predict when it comes to weather. No ...
12 years ago
ListenKevin McCorry and Holly Otterbein join NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller for a closer look on their big stories this week on Philadelphi ...
12 years ago
ListenChilean ‘chicken butt’ researchers make birds walk like dinosaurs
Guess what? Chicken butt!! Research involving chicken butts recently got the attention of regular Pulse contributor ...
12 years ago
ListenLife after losing, and regaining, a sense of smell
Mount Airy resident Anndee Hochman is smelling the Friday-night challah again after living for years without her sense of smell. B ...
12 years ago
ListenNursery owner readies for a wet spring
Hard as it might be to imagine after a winter that saw record snowfall in the region, there is a thaw coming, and gardeners are already p ...
12 years ago
ListenWinter Writers Weekend gives writers tips on self-publishing
Authors looking to navigate the maze of marketing and publishing challenges can get some help at the Winter Writer’s Weekend this w ...
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