The Pulse Episode Archive

We explore the nature of chronic pain — what causes it, how it affects us, and the ongoing fight to stop it.

If you’re training to become a physician, your first patient is usually dead. In fact, “first patient” is what med students call th ...

9/11 rescue worker wants the world to see the toll the work took on her body.

For more than a decade, a unique gross anatomy course at Indiana University required students to get to know the family of the donated cadaver they worked on.

Science is all about observing the world. But how do you study something you can’t see, smell, or hear — like the tiniest particles a ...

How scientists and engineers make parts for a nuclear fusion experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in New Jersey.

In 2018, brother and sister filmmaking duo Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev traveled to a beach in the Siberian Arctic — an area in ...

Pests: We know them when we see them. The mice that lurk in our kitchens, the squirrels that steal our tomatoes, the mosquitoes that bite ...

Even for the most devoted animal lover among us, there are animals that we hate and try to avoid, or kill: rats, mice, pigeons, invasive snakes. We call these animals pests.

It seems like every day, new skin care products hit the market: lotions, serums, collagen boosters, light therapy, at-home lasers — pot ...

For a product whose toxic origins trace back to a biological weapons lab in Maryland, Botox has helped normalize cosmetic injectables

A new microneedling technique utilizes a solution based on human stem cells to increase the treatment’s effect. WHYY’s host of The Pulse, Maiken Scott, gave it a try.

Dealing with a serious or chronic health condition is hard enough — but what happens when that condition comes with moral judgment? Tha ...

A labeling fluke and an international bestseller shaped our thinking about public health.

With only one FDA approved topical cream for vitiligo — finding comfort in one’s own skin comes at a cost.