The Pulse Archive

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. ...

Imagine 7,000 gallons of cow manure. It smells. Brett Reinford’s dairy farm in Central Pennsylvania has 700 cows, and that& ...

In some former coal towns, residents continue to hold tight to that economy and identity. Reporter Elizab ...

In the push for an electrical energy source that can sustainably power the modern world — namely, renewables, like wind and solar — t ...

For Lent, Mary Kate Ranii produced as little garbage as possible. Anything she couldn’t avoid, she carried with her. Mary Ka ...

In certain sports, rapid weight loss is extremely common and extremely dangerous. Boxers, wrestlers, muay thai and mixed martial a ...

One of the first, big decisions parents have to make is whether or not to vaccinate their child. Vaccines are vital to public — ...

When you’re trading your medical school classroom for a soggy, chilly nature reserve — you better be prepared. During a wi ...

Many of us have some baggage when it comes to our health. A bad back. High blood pressure. Heart disease. Cancer. In health insurance spe ...

Many veterans come home and have trouble adjusting to civilian life, and that adjustment weighed heavily on Russel Keyser. In 2004 ...

One of the most visible signs of climate change is rising seas. Coastal cities have seen more frequent and larger storms – think Hu ...