The Pulse Archive

A busy journalist and mom test drives tools from “happiness science.” When the architects of America wrote about the p ...

Each year, a Missouri  man created a bigger and more explosive pyrotechnics display — until the summer an ATF agent showed up at his d ...

After working overnight, an ER doctor does her best to sleep during the sunniest hours. While Dorian Jacobs’ husband and tod ...

Hot dogs are a staple of summer barbecues, but they’re also notoriously bad for you.  Franks are typically a processed food, which ...

Some problems are so big, so entrenched and complicated, you can start to feel like Sisyphus – condemned to roll a boulder up a hil ...

Jenny Leyh was 28 weeks pregnant when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She used to dread walking into the waiting room for ea ...

Public health experts say: Ditch your smokes. And if you have HIV, there are a few extra reasons to kick the habit soon.  At ...

When her daughter was born in January, the first thing Maria Rios checked was the baby’s head.  She’d seen the te ...

Steaks are delicious. Bacon is tasty. Americans eat a ton of meat, and consumption is on the rise. And, there are serious implications in ...

Carnivores say too much protein makes them perspire. Scientists say that’s doubtful. Chris Pinto from South Philadelphia say ...

What’s in your backyard, in your water, in your food? On this episode, we hunt for the hidden poisons and find them everywhere — ...

Gene editing is quickly moving from high-tech labs into middle school classrooms and even people’s kitchens. Will this finally brin ...

A group of African-American landowners filed a civil rights complaint over a landfill. It took EPA more than a decade to quietly close th ...

Hear what a ‘kinder slaughter’ sounds like. As farmer Jon McConaughy wades through his flock of 400 sheep, lambs bleat, seemin ...

Cured meat is a big food trend in the U.S. right now, but the meat isn’t cooked with heat, so it takes a bit of work to keep the sa ...