The Pulse Episode Archive

Are you an introvert or an extrovert? Open to new experiences, or comforted by routine? Shy or the life of the party? Figuring out what m ...

More than 2 million people in the U.S. are incarcerated — and tens of thousands have had COVID-19. The pandemic has brought more attent ...

There’s not a lot to laugh about right now. But throughout the pandemic, we’ve managed to joke about our shared misery — like makin ...

Left to their own devices, viruses are pretty much helpless. They need cells to infect in order to replicate. But they’re sneaky — ma ...

The modern world is made possible by a web of electromagnetic radiation. Your phone, computer, TV, cable box, radio — all depend on mil ...

Who becomes a physician in this country — and who never gets that chance? It’s a question a lot of medical schools are grappling with ...

Throughout the darkest hours of this pandemic, the world kept its gaze trained on the light at the end of the tunnel: a vaccine. Just ove ...

When you are walking around in the forest, the park, or even the city, do you ever listen to the songs of birds? Really tune in, and list ...

Humans have long tried to mitigate their own destructive impact on the planet through conservation efforts. Often, those efforts are atta ...

School closures during the pandemic have pushed education for millions of kids into a virtual setting. The sudden changes have caused som ...

Every time you get a prescription drug, you’re dealing with a middleman you’ve probably never heard of — one who has had a hand in ...

What is love? Is it that warm and fuzzy feeling, that crazed obsession, that deep sentiment of trust and good will? It’s all of those t ...

When we think of “the future,” it sounds like something abstract and faraway — we imagine new inventions, cutting-edge innovations, ...

Who are you? There are dozens of ways to answer that question, from your name and nationality, to your relationships and job, all the way ...

Plastic gets a bad rap — over the years, it’s become synonymous with environmental destruction, cheap fakery, needless consumption, a ...