The Pulse Episode Archive

It’s the goosebumps you get at the crescendo of your favorite song; the stupefying wonder that comes with witnessing a birth or a death ...

It’s the start of a new year — a time when lots of people are thinking about how they can improve their lives … and themselves. We ...

On a technical level, noise and sound are the same thing: vibrating molecules that travel in waves straight to our ears. But when sound i ...

Science journalist Ed Yong is a must-read — with his in-depth reporting, his beautifully told stories, and spot-on analysis. He is one ...

The soundscape of our lives changes depending on where we are — the murmuring of voices, birdsong in trees, the beeps and dings of tech ...

Whether we’re in a forest, a park, or in the middle of a city, wildlife is always close by. Birds flying overhead, deer peeking through ...

The death of a loved one can be shattering — especially when it’s unexpected. It destroys our feeling of safety, warps our sense of r ...

Pain is powerful — and when it becomes chronic, it can be all-consuming. It takes over our minds, saps our energy, and becomes the focu ...

The bottom of the ocean seems like an unlikely place to be teeming with life — it’s dark, freezing cold, and subject to enormous pres ...

What we eat — and how our food is produced — is always changing. Over the past few decades, we’ve seen attempts to go from industri ...

Hurricanes. Tornadoes. Blizzards. Flooding. Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a staggering increase in extreme weather events, res ...

There are 19 million veterans in the U.S. who have served in the armed forces. For many, the military gave them a sense of shared purpose ...

It’s that time of year when we celebrate something we usually hate: fear. We visit haunted houses and corn mazes or binge-watch the sca ...

There’s a lot to love about grasslands — the sound of the wind blowing through them, the way the colors change with the seasons, how ...

In the early days of the pandemic, life on the streets changed. Traffic was clear, and the roads felt nearly deserted. Bumper-to-bumper c ...