The Pulse Archive

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 ...

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 ...