The Pulse Archive

Imagine spending your whole life, from childhood, fighting temptation inside what one might describe as the belly of the beast. Im ...

The workplace wellness movement promises benefits to both employees and employers by encouraging and rewarding healthy lifestyle choices. ...

Workplace wellness programs have sprouted up with a vengeance in the last decade or so, but do they work? Workplace wellness progr ...

Want to meet the Pulse and SciStarter teams? Join us Tuesday, Feb. 18, for Science at the Sixers.  Want to meet the Pulse and ...

Operating tiny motors inside a cell is a “basic science” breakthrough toward a far-off dream. Scientists at Pennsylvan ...

Clinical sexologist Susana Mayer encourages couples to turn their beds into sandboxes.  “I show women how to have orgas ...

Medical ethicist Art Caplan weighs in on the surge of workplace wellness programs and how some of these programs “go too far.” ...

A look at the mental health needs of undocumented immigrants.  In a lot of ways, Domingo is like other good kids his age. He ...

Choreographer Brian Sanders opens up about the hip replacement surgery that sparked a minor career change. Choreographer Brian San ...

On this edition of The Pulse, we explore the question of how kids impact life satisfaction and happiness. We talk with Jennifer Senior ab ...

How does science play a role in restoring an elaborate 17th Century painting?  To restore a painting, it takes a village, a t ...

The stroller brigade was rolling down the street, toward a busy day care center near Philadelphia’s Ben Franklin Parkway. It was dr ...

In this week’s Patient Files, Emma Straub talks about the anxiety that came with trying to define a disease that’s affected h ...

The Delaware Valley is an international leader in health, science and innovation. Living in such a brain-heavy region, it is not unheard ...

The Pulse tags along with local birdwatcher Pat Evans as she studies migratory bird patterns and fluxes in bird populations from New Jers ...