The Pulse Archive

An unveiling of the science behind the circus blade box, a human blockhead, sword swallowing and more.  The circus is full of ...

A look at sickle cell disease and why there aren’t more promising options for treatment. Eight year old Nadir Tinsley is get ...

Fertility experts like Dr. Liberty Barnes think gender has little role when problems getting pregnant arise. In the United States, ...

Part of the VA system overhaul to address long patient wait times is to offer veterans more access to community-based primary care doctor ...

What if you could take carbon dioxide out of our atmosphere, and actually use it to make stuff? We meet one professor who is trying to do ...

Author Ruha Benjamin says “the legacy of Tuskegee” is too often used as shorthand to refer to a perceived mistrust among blac ...

A grieving Philadelphia mom wants to make sure everyone knows that swimming in the creeks isn’t just illegal — it’s dan ...

Caused by a fungus that’s transported by the walnut twig beetle, the disease attacks the innermost layer of a tree’s bark, ca ...

A couple decades ago, women going through menopause were prescribed hormone replacement, but questions over the safety of that therapy ha ...

“No,” says one expert—the numbers just don’t add up. As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to spread ...

Philadelphia’s Penn Museum announced this week it discovered the skeleton in its basement. But how did they lose it in the first pl ...

Why are some people able to shake off stress more than others? A recent study could provide some clues. “A lot of people hav ...

After a train crash in Paulsboro, N.J., a cloud of toxic gas sent 28 people to the hospital. Mantua Township resident Ronald Morris was a ...

Experts say allergy symptoms are getting worse each year and larger environmental issues could be a factor. If even hearing the wo ...

Some groups are taking issue with how one website, aimed at providing public disclosure on fracking chemicals, is making that data availa ...