The Pulse Archive

More than 60 million gallons of drinking water leak out of Philadelphia’s water pipes…every day. Every day, the Philad ...

An idealogical divide in the court over Obamacare could mean swing votes may decide the fate of the law. The Supreme Court is in t ...

It’s a dream job for a man who loves science, technology, video games, and movies.  It’s a dream job for a man wh ...

Last week, we launched a new initiative with Clear Health Costs called WHYY PriceCheck to try to help create transparency around pricing ...

The discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome was a crucial link between cancer and genetics. There is a hallway in Fox Chase Cance ...

What are the factors that contribute to great tasting tap water?  A professional water taste tester explains.  Arthur vo ...

What happens when one person is asked donate an organ to another person?  “Under the Skin,” now premiering at the ...

What if every time you bought a bottle of Poland Spring or Evian water to quench your thirst, you first poured a third of it onto the str ...

Please fill out the form below to help us and our partner, ClearHealthCosts.com, make health care costs more transparent. (It may take th ...

Maiken Scott, host of WHYY’s The Pulse, offers a step-by-step video guide to filling out the price check form.   ...

Haircuts. Houses. Plane tickets. Computers. Ever bought any of these things without knowing the price beforehand, and then just paid the ...

On Wednesday, March 4, the Supreme Court will hear a case that challenges one of Obamacare’s key provisions: subsidies that make co ...

Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of subsidies key to the success of the Affordable Care ...

Linda Wang, a medical student from Canada with a hankering for jazz, was just passing through Philadelphia visiting family when she disco ...

How Thomas Evans served royalty and helped modernize dentistry. Not every dentist gets to be Napoleon III’s dentist. That ho ...