The Pulse Archive

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Guess what? Chicken butt!! Research involving chicken butts recently got the attention of regular Pulse contributor ...

Mount Airy resident Anndee Hochman is smelling the Friday-night challah again after living for years without her sense of smell. B ...

We visit a writing workshop in Norristown, Pa., that guides adults with autism through the playwriting process.  The lobby of ...

‘Trauma-informed care’ encourages mental health providers to look at behaviors as clues – as connecting dots to a bigge ...

Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center are searching for new ways to treat smell-loss.  Researchers at the Monell C ...

Understanding the ice surrounding us and why, exactly, it makes us slip. In this winter of our discontent, traction has become a f ...