The Pulse Archive

With school just a few weeks off, some kids are soaking up the final, carefree days of summer. Yet for many children, summer can mean goi ...

A bogus University of Pennsylvania study helped jump-start a movement toward additional data disclosure. The focus on so-called ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects about 100,000 people in the United States—mostly of African descent—maki ...

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 ...