The Pulse Archive

We’re getting to the root of some important questions: why are teeth treated differently than other body parts, when it comes to ca ...

Who have you hugged today? Was it a Hollywood hug or a serious bear hug? There’s more to those embraces than just affection! We sen ...

Laurie Mazer and her kids are are excited about heading to Massachusetts for a summer trip. But they’re less excited for the car ri ...

What are you hearing right now? Traffic? People? Birds? Maybe a dog barking? All day long, we tune in to and out of the sounds around us. ...

Friends do each other favors. And if your friend is a physician, that favor might be lending you medical expertise or a prescription pad. ...

Just outside of New York City in a farmhouse in Bedford, New York, Katherine Flannery Dering is looking at photos of her brother, Paul. P ...

“I feel like I have to re-prove myself every time I go to the doctor” — a patient and a health policy expert weigh in on Am ...

When Michael LaCombe was training to be a doctor, he met a woman in the psychiatry ward on one of his rotations. He would sit and talk to ...

These days, Tonia Hsieh is in charge of her own lab full of eager science students, but when she was an undergrad, she found herself delv ...

For more than a decade, Aaron Beck and Martin Seligman have been meeting in Beck’s high-rise apartment located right in the center ...

We sent our least touchy-feely journalist to visit “The Hugging Saint”. When Amma comes to town, people line up—and ...

WHYY’s health and science show, The Pulse, was recognized with two awards from Public Radio News Directors Incorporated (PRNDI). Th ...

On today’s show, we look at the history and future of fabric, find out what happens when a Silicon Valley startup tries to make the ...

The company is under scrutiny from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration, largely due to reporting ...

From nylon to next-generation fabrics, the research lab always precedes the runway.  For thousands of years, we humans donned ...