The Pulse Archive

Some kid movies are kicking the smoking habit. When a movie hero strikes a match and lights a cigarette, it means something. ...

There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...

At the Library of Congress Packard Campus of Audio-Visual Conservation, vaults burrow into Mount Pony on a 45-acre campus surrounded by b ...

Flipping through old, behind the scenes notes on Disney’s ‘Fantasia’, one audio engineer saw the start of surround soun ...

From a pain in the leg, to death without much warning, we explore how an issue that kills 60,000 Americans each year often goes unnoticed ...

Medical schools across the country including Harvard, Yale and Northwestern universities are mixing in literature, art, drama—even danc ...

The way doctors treat different illnesses is guided – and often changed pretty dramatically – by research. But – what if th ...

For a handful of triathletes training in a pool in the suburbs of Kansas City, simply swimming laps is too easy. Instead, theyR ...

Effective public health messages have to be short and clear: Smoking kills. Don’t drink and drive. Buckle up for safety. Eat a rain ...

Dara Satterfield has a unique way of looking at Monarch butterflies. She thinks of them as ‘tiny camels.’ “They ...

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it — copulate, that is. We step into the facinating kingdom of animal sex with biologis ...

In his impious 1911 glossary “The Devil’s Dictionary” – a collection of humorous definitions — Ambrose Bierce d ...

Carin Bondar is remarkably candid when she talks about the intimate details of animal intercourse. That’s the topic of her rec ...

On a recent sunny afternoon, a handful of volunteers led a tour group around Howling Woods Farm ...

You know that old saying, ‘the eyes are the window to the soul’? Well, during Philadelphia’s Fringe Festival this past ...