The Pulse Archive

Jumping at the slightest little thing can be annoying and embarrassing. Why do some people startle so easily, and can they do anything about it?

People can reframe their relationship with uncertainty and that can help relieve some of their anxiety.

Our sense of smell can bring us quick bursts of joy, like a whiff of bread baking, that freshly brewed cup of coffee, or your favorite pe ...

Why NASA is creating — and then sniffing out — some of the foulest smells known in the universe.

Cultural preferences play a huge role in determining what and who smells good to some and bad to others. Factors other than fragrance are involved.

Plastic gets a bad rap — over the years, it’s become synonymous with environmental destruction, cheap fakery, needless consumption, a ...

The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world — and that spending is going up every year. In some re ...

Trikafta costs $360,000 a year per cystic fibrosis patient, a big price the government has hesitated to approve.

Births are a high-risk, low-return part of the health business. The city’s hospitals rallied together a decade ago. Is a new challenge ahead?

Artificial intelligence has seen huge advances in the last decade, very notably in the technology of natural language processing. NLP has ...

Intelligent machines will play a much larger role in the future than they do now, and we’re trying to imagine that future as we’re ra ...

In a lot of ways, artificial intelligence acts as our personal butlers — it filters our email, manages the temperature in our homes, fi ...

Menopause typically happens during a time of life when women need to be on top of their game; managing their careers, raising children, a ...

There’s long been an idea that sharing our DNA for research benefits the greater good — that it leads to new insights, new medication ...

For decades, slavery created challenges for Black Americans trying to trace their roots. DNA ancestry tests might reveal new answers.