The Pulse Archive

Can a copy really be as good as the real thing? We’ll explore that question on this episode. We’ll meet robotic cats that liv ...

These days, when you record yourself, even just using your phone, it’s high quality – so what you capture should be a pretty ...

Robots are great at doing a lot of things, but they have trouble interacting with the physical world. Roboticists in Pittsburgh ar ...

Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...

There’s been quite a buzz in the San Francisco Bay Area recently about something called ‘The Impossible Burger’. Imposs ...

Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh ...

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

Snow scientists at Montana State University are tracking risky decision making in the backcountry. The ski season began in Decembe ...

Many nursing homes try to replicate the feeling of home for the ...

About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a ...

For years, people have been frustrated with the slow pace of innovation in diabetes care.  About one million Americans have Type 1 d ...

Love is in the air, so we thought it would be the perfect time to talk about the heart…in a health and science sort of way! On this ...

When watching these birds move, it looks like they're one giant organism with a centralized brain. But an ornithologist explains it's not one brain so much as one thought.

On July 17, 2014 Kurt Hinrichs, of Gladstone, Missouri, went to bed early. When his wife joined him, she woke him with her snoring. That ...

Elyse Hunt hit rock bottom last summer. She had pummeled deeply into an already serious depression, leaving her bedridden and contemplati ...