The Pulse Archive

Fathers don’t just function as male mothers — they provide a kind of caregiving that’s unique to dads. When Eric Ben ...

The brown-headed cowbird is one of the most hated birds in the entirety of the animal kingdom.  Each springtime, when most bi ...

One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Today Carolina Garzon is mom to smiling five-month-old Emma, but her first try at mot ...

Married women scientists with children are less likely to get a tenure track job than married men with children. Nancy Pleshko, a ...

Shawnee Baker was in labor — and her husband was trying his best to get her to the hospital in time. As they bumped along country roads ...

It was bound to happen in a city as old as Philadelphia. Last fall, in the heart of the nation’s first capital and just a st ...

In Kansas City, the Jackson family is learning to live with the costs of a more public life. At age 3, the child Debi and Tom Jack ...

A biologist says her research on dolphin sex is worth public investment. A whole bunch of dolphin clitorises are laid out on a tab ...

We followed two scientists starting from the inauguration in January to the March for Science in April.   ...

What should fuel America? Wind? Sun? Cow dung? We’re having a power struggle over that – it’s political, but it’s ...

What can we learn from extremes? On this episode, we’ll meet athletes who are ready to risk their lives to shed pounds quickly, med ...

Amy Marzolino watches her toddler, August, like a hawk, and with good reason. “I’m the mom who’s running across ...

Neighbors are teaming up to tackle the challenge of switching to sun-sourced electricty. Sal Fede’s house isn’t much t ...

The people at Wanapum Dam are trying to balance the interests of fish and clean power. The Wanapum Dam is massive. It̵ ...

An artificial leaf created by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago captures greenhouse gas and puts it to work again. ...