The Pulse Archive

Anti-gay prejudice is written into Jamaican law. A colonial-era rule criminalizes male intercourse and LGBT activists say talk of jail ti ...

Hint: It offered a slight chance of rebooting his damaged immune system.  About ten years ago, ...

The way we like to get clean is changing. In ancient Rome, people smeared themselves with pumice or ash to clean their bodies. The ...

A huge misconception in the world of flatulence is that when you toot, your butt cheeks are to blame for the noise.  Not necessarily ...

Geneticists are beginning to track the influence of prenatal testing on the Down syndrome population.  When faced with the fa ...

Can a copy really be as good as the real thing? We’ll explore that question on this episode. We’ll meet robotic cats that liv ...

These days, when you record yourself, even just using your phone, it’s high quality – so what you capture should be a pretty ...

Robots are great at doing a lot of things, but they have trouble interacting with the physical world. Roboticists in Pittsburgh ar ...

Ross Lockwood spent four months on top of a volcano in Hawaii. He lived in an inflatable dome the size of a two-bedroom apartment with fi ...

There’s been quite a buzz in the San Francisco Bay Area recently about something called ‘The Impossible Burger’. Imposs ...

Let’s explore the most complex computer system on Earth: the brain. On this episode, we’ll examine this wondrous organ — wh ...

Research suggests that bird brains are small but mighty, so don’t judge a brain by its size. Don’t judge a brain by it ...

Snow scientists at Montana State University are tracking risky decision making in the backcountry. The ski season began in Decembe ...

Many nursing homes try to replicate the feeling of home for the ...

About four years ago, Jeremy Hoffman, who was 30 at the time, told his wife Rebecca about some weird symptoms he was having — he felt a ...