The Pulse Archive

COVID-19 — a coronavirus disease — is spreading around the world, putting people and governments on high alert. How will we respond t ...

Sadness seemingly comes out of nowhere sometimes: a song, a photo, a movie scene, a memory, and there it is. Your heart seems heavy. Tear ...

How a subreddit dedicated to strangers’ problems taps into our human desire for fairness

“It’s not fair!” That’s a common refrain anyone with kids is familiar with. From the time they learn to talk, kids begin protesti ...

Is taking away the human factor the key to more just rulings?

What is love? Is it that warm and fuzzy feeling, that crazed obsession, that deep sentiment of trust and good will? It’s all of those t ...

When people are in unhealthy or unbalanced relationships, we often use a term to describe them: codependent. But what does that actually mean?

Think of some of the iconic movie monsters: Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy, Godzilla. What do they have in common?

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 ...

Clever choreography, a strong bond between dog and trainer … and evolutionary psychology?

New policies meant to curb the youth vaping epidemic could hurt adults who vape to quit

When evolutionary biologists studied the protein involved in fusing placenta cells, it didn’t look like it came from human DNA. It looked like a virus.

When you’re a teenager, everybody tells you that getting pregnant happens quickly, under all kinds of circumstances. But when you look ...

Since the 1980s, asthma has been increasing across all ages and ethnic groups in the U.S. But it’s a bigger problem among Native Americans.

Hair can be our crowning glory, a big part of our identity, and a tool for self-expression. We shave it, style it, cut it, dye it — an ...