The Pulse Archive

Chances are, in all your visits to the doctor, you’ve been helped, at least once, by a physician assistant, or PA. As new patients ...

Can an art form like opera, almost synonymous with the past, take advantage of modern technology, like the internet and smartphones? ...

Ever get the urge to drink a glass of tomato juice on a flight? You aren’t alone, and there’s a scientific explanation why. ...

Who, exactly, are doctors of osteopathic medicine, and how are they different from other doctors? Most people who have been to a h ...

Data centers — both the big server farms that house “The Cloud” and the small systems storing company data — ...

How one teenager encourages her grandmother to make healthier lifestyle choices in light of a chronic disease. Alyse Nichols is so ...

Usually, when we talk about climate change, we’re talking about things that might or might not happen 50 or 100 years from now. But ...

Philadelphia has invested in dozens of urban greening projects to prevent stormwater runoff. Now a team of mapmakers and data analysts is ...

Dr. Bethany Brookshire wants people to get excited about science — and what better way to excite people than the possibility of consumi ...

On a warm late-summer day, Delaware farmer Frank Webb stood on a bare patch of dirt in the middle of his Kent County farm. He poin ...

Turns out the bass is the driving force in music for a reason. Each song may have its own unique sonic fingerprint, but researcher ...

NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet focuses on water vapor in the outer atmosphere. This week was a big one for the Red ...

Music therapist Jerry O’Leary greeted his class at NewCourtland LIFE, a senior day center, with a promise to play some old favorite ...

Fifteen seconds. That’s all it took to raze a 16-story public housing high-rise in Philadelphia last weekend. Only an implosion—a ...

The date was July 15, 2012. It’s the date that John “Plex” Dooling remembers as the day he died. “For seve ...