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Chilean researchers attached tails to chickens to see if they could replicate the walk of dinosaurs. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY FILE)
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Chilean ‘chicken butt’ researchers make birds walk like dinosaurs

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At Market Blooms in Reading Terminal Market Anndee Hochman attempts to smell the aromas of lilac and eucalyptus. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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Life 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 ...

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Nursery 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 ...

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Winter 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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Jason Halberstadt (right) works with actor and teaching artist Clare O'Malley in a playwriting class for adults with autism at Theatre Horizon in Norristown
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Embracing and challenging the true storytellers in adults with autism

We visit a writing workshop in Norristown, Pa., that guides adults with autism through the playwriting process.  The lobby of ...

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Art of Food — Produced by Monica Rogozinski Avance is French for advance. And advance is what Chef Justin Bogle and ...

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Can researchers re-ignite someone’s sense of smell through nasal stem cells?

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center are searching for new ways to treat smell-loss.  Researchers at the Monell C ...

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HopeWorks on State Street in Camden provides job training and in some cases housing. (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
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Asking a key question to understand puzzling behaviors

‘Trauma-informed care’ encourages mental health providers to look at behaviors as clues – as connecting dots to a bigge ...

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Wolf leads the pack among big Pa. campaign donors

Pennsylvania voters will elect a governor this year. A crowded field of Democrats is vying to unseat Republican Governor Tom Corbe ...

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Sam Adams brewer brings business know-how to area entrepreneurs

The Boston Beer Company, best known for brewing Sam Adams beer, is expanding to bring its American Dream recipe to Philadelphia ...

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Ice skating, without the ice

Understanding the ice surrounding us and why, exactly, it makes us slip. In this winter of our discontent, traction has become a f ...

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Schizophrenia treatment approaches, challenges and the importance of early intervention

An interview with clinical psychologist Kim Mueser about new approaches to schizophrenia treatment.  Schizophrenia is often v ...

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One man’s mission to change perceptions of people with schizophrenia

Psychologist Frederick Frese explains how his experience with schizophrenia shaped his passion for helping others with mental illness.&nb ...

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Signs of vandalism and arson were evident at the Chestnut Hill Meeting House site after a Dec. 2012 attack allegedly performed by members of the Ironworkers Local 401. (Bas Slabbers/for NewsWorks)
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Reporter’s Roundtable: Government, railway reach agreement on new practices, history of acts of violence by unions

StateImpact Pennsylvania’s Katie Colaneri and WHYY Senior Reporter Dave Davies discuss the big stories of the week. StateImp ...

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