The Pulse Archive

Machines might save you if you have a heart attack, but technology isn’t solely responsible for the dramatic decrease in cardiac-re ...

What gives baked goods their texture? How does turkey brining work? Does tryptophan really make us sleepy?  Ahea ...

If it weren’t for our understanding of the chemical process that creates our favorite beers, we’d still be drinking spoiled a ...

A Philadelphia woman is likely to enjoy many more Thanksgivings following a successful bone marrow transplant.   Frances ...

It was supposed to be a fairly routine procedure; a scheduled laparoscopic hysterectomy. For Miriam Gilbert of New Jersey, it turn ...

What should I do?   Choose your child’s age: Under 3 months ...

If you or a loved one has ever been diagnosed with a serious illness, you may or not have remembered all the details of those visits with ...

President Obama’s carbon reduction agreement with China this week was criticized by Republican leaders including Mitch McConnell, w ...

The quest for a cure for cancer has become such a fixation of modern medicine that the very phrase has taken on a second life in modern p ...

Two new stars are found 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles away. Ask astronomer ...

Millions of old tires are ground up and sprinkled on artificial fields each year. But is the practice safe? In October, University ...

It’s been a busy week in the science world, perhaps best symbolized by the explosion of the “#cometlanding” hashtag on ...

Climate change hurtled to a newly prominent role in both domestic and foreign policy this week after President Obama reached a landmark c ...

Some people look good in 3-D glasses. Frank Klassner is one of the them. The Villanova University computer science professor happi ...

Twenty years ago Leslie Handler went for a routine dental appointment.  It was her first time with a new dentist and she remembers being ...