The Pulse Archive

Graphene, a thin layer of tighly packed pure cabon atoms, is often talked about as a “supermaterial” that is poised to change ...

How much of who we are is determined by our DNA? Is our DNA a predictor of behavior? How do our genes evolve over time?  Whil ...

Now more than ever, it seems, robots and automation are taking a more prominent role in places where humans are either unwilling or unabl ...

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly when the rise of the microbrew began, but one thing is for sure: across the country, from Portla ...

It’s a new year, so that means a new you, right?  We dissect our desires to start over — to do things better and perh ...

A lot of times, when we’re deciding to cut out specific foods for better health, our decision is based on the latest study.  B ...

Steve Clark is a Philadelphia teacher who always wanted to do something heroic – on the scale of a Greek hero. Problem is, he doesnR ...

A young man leaves home in search of a new liver. Last summer, Seth Doraiswami, a stonemason from Belmont, Massachusetts planned a ...

Her newborn in withdrawal, a young mother faces her own recovery. “Where’s everybody headed?” “Six, ...

We spend a lot of time studying ourselves and our behavior — how we buy things, how we motivate ourselves, how we concentrate. But does ...

Some spend their whole lives unsure of what disease they’re suffering from. For them, a new network of health centers across the co ...

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

True tone deafness, or congenital amusia, is relatively rare. It’s a disorder in which people are unable to tell one note from anot ...

Doctors are certainly used to bringing up uncomfortable topics – they ask us about all kinds of very private things; sex, drugs, an ...

Sometimes in the field of citizen science, scientific instruments can start to look a little like that science fair project you did back ...