The Pulse Archive

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 ...

Nov. 15 marks the start of year two of open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. Last year’s launch was a bit of a disaster, s ...

Along the Eastern Seaboard, forests are expanding, but also showing signs of stress. Some blame the stress on climate change. Others insi ...

Even with Veterans Day here and the U.S. slowly inching towards ever more elaborate military engagement against ISIS, many Americans woul ...

The Pulse prognosticates on a few of this election’s hottest policy topics.  Tom Wolf easily defeated incumbent Pennsyl ...

12-year-old Pearl Miller got her second HPV vaccine last month, and according to health officials that puts her ahead of lots of other yo ...

Scientists think they’ve collected and identified seven space dust particles so small, a needle in a haystack doesn’t even be ...

This weekend, Matthew McConaughey will head into outer space on a quest to save mankind. The new mega sci fi movie directed by Christophe ...

Prescription drug sales in the U.S. totaled well over $300 billion in 2013. Medications are expensive, and especially new drugs often com ...