The Pulse Archive

We look at things that are hard to measure and the different approaches that we take to get those measurements correct.

Improvements in audio recorders, artificial intelligence, and data storage make sound a more powerful tool for ecology than ever before.

The Gregorian system we all know is just pseudoscience and so random, says Tom Sherman. He’s out to disrupt it.

December 30, 2011 never happened in Samoa. The island nation in the South Pacific skipped this day, to move ahead into a different time z ...

Join us on an audio walking tour through Philadelphia's Old City to discover how the yellow fever epidemic challenged the city’s health and political infrastructure.

Often we think of life and death as opposite sides of a coin — categories as final as they are discrete. But in an age when machines ca ...

Cars have played a fundamental role in changing our modern lives — where we live, where we work, the shape of our communities, and how ...

Every culture, workplace, group, and family has its norms — its standards, the way things are done. Norms govern everything from relati ...

Lobstermen and conservationists are finding common ground with ropeless fishing gear, but time is running out.

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 ...

Machine learning is democratizing special effects — and that might be a bad thing.

Lab-grown meat for dogs and cats might be on the market before lab-grown meat for humans.

Scientist. Farmer. Feminist. Leader. Alpha male. Veteran. African-American. Hindu. Identity isn’t just about who we think we are — it ...

Coloring is a complex chemical reaction, a sophisticated organic synthesis, that takes place in each strand on the top of your head.

Long natural hair elicits wonder — but also much wondering about how to achieve it, and how to stop comparing ourselves with others who have.