The Pulse Archive

Each January, we make guesses about the people and things we think you’ll be talking about in the New Year.  Our first ...

It’s new and it’s old. Old as in ancient Egypt and the scribes who kept records there. New as in a modern scribe typing into ...

This year is set to be a landmark one in global climate change policy. Starting in Paris in late November, delegates from nearly 2 ...

It’s the holiday season, so this week we listen back to some stories that make us feel warm and fuzzy. We’ll also attempt to ...

Scent has the almost magical ability to transport us back to a specific time and place with one sniff. The holiday season is rife with th ...

In November, Philadelphia presented the John Scott Award to three ...

Smells have the almost magical quality of being able to transport us back to a specific time and place with one sniff—an olfactory time ...

Many other doors remain open. We might be getting a bit closer to answering one of the oldest questions in planetary science: Wher ...

Joanne Martin stands on the muddy bank of Brady Run, a stream in Beaver County in western Pennsylvania. To get there, she crawled down a ...

The Philadelphia 76ers can’t seem to win and the team’s losing streak might be affecting the body chemistry of its young woul ...

The search for the longer-lasting, faster-charging battery keeps going and going… Inside a ground floor laboratory on a quie ...

Four different animal studies ...

Preliminary results are in for a science experiment we’ve been following (and participating in) on The Pulse, called Project MERCCU ...

On this week’s show, we ...

An author wonders if CPR is always warranted. Everyone has seen a movie or TV show where one character is drowning or choking or h ...