The Pulse Archive

Would you buy a car that’s programmed to potentially kill you? No way, right? But, as driverless cars are beginning to hit t ...

What do you say when you stub your toe? Chances are, it has four letters and starts with an F. But you might also say that word to emphas ...

A Miami-based researcher and his team are hoping to make humans undetectable to the Aedes aegypti. The workplace of neurogeneticis ...

In 2008, composer Daniel Fishkin’s ears started ringing, and they never stopped. Doctors offered no solace besides, “You get ...

Anosmics have a new option for gaining back a lost sense.  In 2012, Chris Kelly caught a cold, which then moved into her sinu ...

It seemed like a major moment in human history: a fleet of driverless Uber cars hitting the streets of Pittsburgh last week, making their ...

Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...

The story of how one YouTube educator is reshaping natural history. This piece is a part of our s ...

Paleontologists preparing for excursions have to think about appropriate gear, and clothing, but they also have to make sure all of their ...

Eli Dickerson and I start at the edge of the unusual museum collection he manages. This piece is ...

Something changed over the course of human evolution that left a lot of us with weak chins and buck-teeth. ...

In a business district east of Pittsburgh’s downtown, between a pizza shop and a Vietnamese restaurant, is an easy-to-miss storefront m ...

Explaining in a 2014 article in The A ...

It seems that Kirk Johnson was training from a very early age to one day head the country’s largest and most comprehensive natural ...

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.