The Pulse Archive

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 ...

Two decades after the Oakland Hills firestorm, neighbors are still battling over the ‘flammable’ forest. Walking along ...

Vera Rubin. Zora Neale Hurston. Eugenie Clark. On this episode, we celebrate women who forged a path for generations of female scientists ...

Growing up, Regan Causey Tuder heard something that a lot of yo ...

It’s no secret that there are fewer women than men in a lot of STEM fields. One group is trying to target that problem by inspiring ...

Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...

The celebrated novel ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’ grew from fieldwork in the Black South. Before novelist Zora Neale ...

Every year, thousands of people come to the U.S. from other countries. Some come as immigrants. Others come to this country under terribl ...

As the heated debate over repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act came to a head in town halls across the country and in Congress ...

Amin knew he wanted to work in medicine from an early age. He recalled how growing up in Iran, he’d watch his dad experience seizur ...

Farts. Flies. Maggots. Worms. Earwax. Poop. All of these things gross us out, but the science around them is really facinating! On this e ...

In healthy people, earwax is self-cleaning. “It’s a useful thing,” says Fuad Baroody, an ear, nose, and throat s ...