The Pulse Archive

A microbe collected at WHYY was one of 48 samples recently sent to the International Space Station to test how microbes grow in space.&nb ...

What’s the right amount of sleep, where we feel rested, good, and our brains function at their best? A group of researchers is goin ...

A happy marriage, children, a good life…then illness changes everything. Sixty-five million Americans care for an ill or elderly lo ...

In this edition of So, What Do You Do?, Shoshana Martyniak asks UD’s Richard Wool how he makes vegan leather out of chicken feather ...

Can person-to-person storytelling help doctors remember key information? Two researchers at the University of Pennsylvania recentl ...

A pharma conference, eyeforpharma 2014, was in Philly this week, ...

A look at the challenges of caregiving and the ways in which we can help those providing care for a loved one.  Every year, 6 ...

What do we know about marijuana’s impact on our brains?  At the start of the New Year, as a new law went into effect le ...

Here are the seven events you need to see at this year’s Philadephia Science Festival.  ...

New research shows that when beards or clean shaven faces are ...

In the lead up to the Affordable Care Act enrollment deadline, we spoke with folks researching plans and trying to decide what level of c ...

Now that the clock has wound down for health care enrollment through the Affordable Care Act this year, The Pulse thought it a prime time ...

The number of digital health applications is exploding, but who’s keeping tabs on the safety and effectiveness of all the options?< ...

The streets are lurking with a dangerous science experiment that’s been brewing underground for months. Potholes are a worst ...

Microbes. Most of us are generally aware that these micro-organisms are all around us, but only the malevolent kind seem to make it into ...