
The Pulse Archive
Is this crime-fighting technique invading your privacy?
A law enforcement tool designed to combat gun violence has found a new use as a high tech evidence collector. Sounds good, right? Well, w ...
9 years ago
ListenWhat does it take to produce the overabundance of food that constantly surrounds us? On this week’s show, we take a trip to Russia, ...
Air Date: November 18, 2016
ListenReducing salt in prepared foods is tricky business
If you eat cereal for breakfast, and perhaps a slice of toast, chances are you have consumed a quarter of your daily sodium allowance by ...
9 years ago
ListenAre foods that follow our diet trends good for cats and dogs?
Americans spent $24 billion on pet food last year, and the pet food market continues to grow. The available choices go way beyond aisles ...
9 years ago
ListenFasting for health: the science behind this growing trend
Mimi Dexter-El has not had breakfast in over two years. That means walking by her mother cooking breakfast each morning, “sm ...
9 years ago
ListenThe surprising perks of farming fish in the desert
Fish farming is most lucrative in places where there are fish; coastal states like California or Louisiana. But in the middle of rural Ar ...
9 years ago
ListenRussian cowboys learn to wrangle a brand new beef industry
On a beef ranch called Ledenevo, in the Bryansk region of Russia, about 300 miles southwest of Moscow, everything is brand new. The farm ...
9 years ago
Listen 15:35This election has made Americans feel deeply divided around a lot of issues – it’s as if we’ve lost our ability to connect to one a ...
Air Date: November 11, 2016
ListenMusician Mike Peters: “Rock and roll saved me”
Sometimes it takes more than medicine to save a person. For Welsh musician Mike Peters, that has come in the form of a big, bottomless, s ...
9 years ago
ListenCuddling as medicine for babies going through withdrawal
Babies born addicted to opioids need to be help. Fortunately, people like Beverly Thornton like to do that. Beverly Thornton cuddl ...
9 years ago
ListenRoad to recovery: a motorcycle racer works hard to get back on the track
In June 2015, a devastating crash put Elyse McKinnon on a year-long quest to get back to racing. For anyone who knows Elyse ...
9 years ago
ListenIf sharks had a tooth fairy, they’d be ‘rolling in dough’
Unlike humans, who only get two sets of teeth, sharks can have up to 20 rows of spare teeth stored in their jaws. They lose and replace h ...
9 years ago
ListenUsing hypnosis to search the unconscious for clues in cold cases
‘It’s just a tool the same as a polygraph, OK, the same as DNA, hair follicles, blood samples, and things of that nature. All ...
9 years ago
ListenAmerica’s ambivalence about race is seeping into science
Is race a cloudy lens to view genetics? Often we think research and medicine are above the fray, but in an election year, hot-butt ...
9 years ago
ListenWhy Sputnik’s signal still reverberates in U.S. classrooms
Sputnik, circling the globe, seemed a constant, twinkling reminder that Americans were falling behind in science, destined to lose the sp ...
9 years ago
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