The Pulse Archive

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 ...

The question is not just about money. It’s also about getting the word out to people who need to hear it and might not get it elsewhere.

Because of the pandemic, researchers are learning more about how falsehoods spread on social media — and hopefully how to stop them.

There was a time when seeing was believing — but that’s changing, thanks to new technology that’s elevating fakery to a whole new l ...

The killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis has sparked another wave of national outrage over police brutality and viol ...

Imagine for a moment a world without air conditioners, refrigerators, fans, or even ice. We take them for granted — but keeping cool is ...

The pandemic has warped and stretched time in strange ways, and this week, we listen back to our episode on time.

Around the globe, COVID-19 has frozen economies, closed schools, stores, and restaurants, and even canceled the Olympics. Millions of peo ...

EPA data for ozone levels and particulate matter doesn’t show big changes, but our bodies may feel a subtle, fresher difference.  

Lack of data gathering could have a major impact on ecological studies and the young scientists who do them.

The EPA has approved testing the new insects in the Florida Keys, stinging some who fought the trial for years.

Most of us dread mosquito season — but on some level, you’ve got to admire these pesky bloodsuckers. Over the millennia, they’v ...

Naturally, she swats at them from time to time, but it’s her job to get to know the little biters better.