The Pulse Archive

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

A race-car accident shook her frontal lobes and cerebellum like a baby rattle, doctors said. Personality change after a trauma like that isn’t uncommon. 

Psychologists have a name for that sense of being different when we’re with different groups of friends: our social selves.

Nurses have been a part of every aspect of care with the coronavirus pandemic — taking care of patients, communicating with families, w ...

Health and beauty may go together in the drugstore — but in real life, the two aren’t always so simpatico. From excessive dieting to ...

Technology isn’t just changing our world — it’s changing the words we use to describe it. Language is evolving at breakneck speed, ...

Definitely maybe, research suggests. What doesn’t help: conjugation, and odd bits of practice conversation no one ever uses.

Humans have a close relationship with trees. We plant and cultivate them for food and shelter. Trees offer protection from the rays of th ...

Why sex workers say the laws harm the most vulnerable among their ranks — and put their lives in danger.

In sharp contrast to abstinence-only education or “Just Say No,” America has been moving toward a public health approach that doesn ...

In Kensington, Rosalind Pichardo learned, people using drugs usually want to have Narcan on hand. Drug dealers were tougher to convince.

Movies may not be real — but in a lot of ways, they’re real to us. Great films help us understand the world, history, and one another ...

COVID-19 hasn’t just changed the world — it’s transformed the way we live. On a national scale, it has upended politics and flatten ...

With rampant unemployment and several meat-packing plants linked to COVID-19 outbreaks, many people are turning to at-home horticulture for relief.

Thanks to COVID-19, social media has never been more important — or more dangerous. Information — good or bad — spreads at lightnin ...