The Pulse Archive

A former designer of waiting rooms for hospitals and medical offices shares the secret to a good waiting room.  Natural light ...

A look at the systems one medical emergency department uses to keep from getting bogged down. Einstein Medical Center’s Nort ...

The concept is called advanced access, and it encourages providers to get rid of the backlog by doing away with long-term scheduling book ...

Dr. Gearhart of Penn Ob/Gyn and Midwifery walks us through the complicated shuffle of his daily appointment routine.  Wait ti ...

Theresa Christy, a mathematician and Otis Elevator Research Fellow, explains the science behind your elevator experience.  So ...

Scientists study the impact of pollution on peat for clues about the future of Earth’s climate. You may be familiar with pea ...

Would you voluntarily give up sex for a full year? One woman did and decided to share her story with The Pulse.  Waiting can ...

Where do you get your weather forecasts? TV news channels?  Maybe you use the web? Or the local paper? The Farmers Almanac? No matte ...

Everybody loves talking about the weather. But how do we know what numbers to fret about in the first place? Remember ...

An end-of-winter reminder on the science and wonder of snowflakes. Dirty snowdrifts and hard-packed piles can make it hard to appr ...

Using algorithms to predict when each cold and flu season will hit and what medicines customers will buy.   It’s a ...

How ships’ weather records, dating back 250 years, are helping to predict future weather patterns.  You’ve probab ...

With secret formulas, a weather “prognosticator” and nearly 200 years of history, the Farmers’ Almanac has its own take ...

In this week’s ‘So, What Do You Do?’ segment, public health student Teagan Keating asks Amanda Lawless about her career ...

For decades, HIV has outpaced the scientists trying to eradicate it, often morphing and hiding deep in patients’ bodies. Researcher ...