The Pulse Archive

Why do we all hate to fail so much? Is it something we’ve learned? Is it our innate nature to strive for perfection? Or are we look ...

Breakthrough paleontology requires the right rocks, luck and lots of persistence.  If there is such as thing as a “rock ...

If you want the truth and you want it now, don’t become a scientist.  Failure is an indispensable part of science. ...

The humble beginnings of breast cancer awareness. I called Nancy Haley because I wanted to hear about her mother, the late Charlot ...

The childhood joy of two-wheeled neighborhood discovery is threatened by screen time and safety concerns. On a warm afternoon at G ...

The ADA is regularly touted as a spectacularly successful piece of legislation, but the employment picture for the disabled is a frontier ...

A new web-based venture hopes to democratize access to therapy. The potential downside: prison time. In the therapy world, technol ...

In February, a British engineer announced he had found the strongest natural material on Earth, the teeth of a type of sea snail called t ...

Two years ago, doctors declared obesity a disease, but critics say, “Don’t pathologize my size!” Two years after the ...

For reasons that are never made completely clear, gastroenterologist Mitchell Conn keeps a ha ...

When the stifling heat and sweaty humidity of summer comes crushing down on you, imagine putting on a fur coat. It’s hard to ...

The sun is blazing, the humidity is the highest it’s been all summer and your dog is panting nonstop. Could a summer haircut bring ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...

Scalpels, suction tubes, heart monitors—these are some of the instruments you will find in an operating room. But when you, the patient ...

From Chopin to Danzig, operating rooms can be a cacophony of melodies with up to 70 percent of surgeons listen to music while operating. ...