The Pulse Archive

Obama is out. Trump is in. What does it all mean? Some people can’t wait for the Affordable Care Act to go away, while others are s ...

H-1B reform proposals would give priority to guest workers educated in the U.S. You might not know the te ...

Even though teen pregnancy rates are at an all-time low in the United States, the country has still ...

Marty Cottingham spent 34 years mining the Blue Creek Coal Seam in Alabama. He retired last October, after the company he worked for, Wal ...

We have so much information stored in our brains that helps us sort everything and every person we encounter. It’s amazingly helpfu ...

His mother wasn’t sure what to do, and the Rubin family was weighing her options around the dinner table. It was 1975, and astrophysici ...

An octopus does not think with its arms, per say, but it comes pretty close. The majority of octopuses’ neurons are not centrally l ...

Congressman Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head up the Department of Health and Human Services, faced his first ...

Efforts to curb narcotics abuse are backfiring for sickle cell patients who are already undertreated for pain. When Tanjila Bolden ...

On an unseasonably warm December day, in a pristine corner of Southern New Jersey, near Egg Harbor City, Rutgers professor Ken Able prepa ...

Sometimes the signs of things to come are right before our eyes, but the question is: do we notice them? And if so, how do we interpret t ...

Powerhouse pollinators are finding urban places to nest and forage. Biologist Gerardo Camilo and his team are collecting wild bees ...

Scientists are sending signals from the brain to prosthetic limbs—and back to the brain.  In 2004, Nathan Copeland, who was ...

With an exciting year in the world of health and science winding down, we’re listening back to some of our favorite moments from ou ...

Emily Stewart grew up with what she calls an unreasonable obsession with “West Side Story” and a love of singing.  She a ...