The Pulse Archive

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Philadelphia musician and recording store owner Brian McTear talks about ‘chasing life expectancy’ with cystic fibrosis. ...

Tom Thunstrom of Phillyweather.net tells us what we can – and can’t – predict when it comes to weather.  No ...

We often think of trauma as the result of a singular negative experience, but many, who spend their entire lives in environments plagued ...