The Pulse Episode Archive

Serum follows the life and work of Dr. Gary Davis, a Black physician from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who was working on a treatment for AIDS in the ...

The modern ICU, or Intensive Care Unit, was born out of a time of crisis. It was 1952, and polio was raging in many places — especially ...

Science is all about discovery — tackling the big questions that define our world, and hopefully our future. But some of these question ...

It’s when a dark alleyway makes the hairs stand up on the back of our neck; when a mother just knows that something’s wrong ...

In the fall of 2019, reporter Grant Hill jumped into a cab  — where his driver, Clyde Ashley Sherman, told him the story of a lifetime ...

Our lives depend on water — not just any water: clean, safe water. We need it for drinking, for cooking, for washing. And very often, w ...

Science is constantly propelling athletes to run faster, jump higher, push harder, and break records. Scientific advances have become suc ...

When we’re stressed, upset, feeling down, or off, most of us have things we do to decompress. Things we ...

Imagine yourself out in nature — away from all the noise and the distractions of our lives. You can smell the rich scents of the forest ...

In 2018, journalist Linda Villarosa wrote ...

IVF clinics have long tested embryos for genetic disorders and abnormalities — but in recent years, new startups have been pushing the ...

Emotions are fleeting — they can bubble up seemingly out of nowhere and change quickly. Studying them is challenging, but it’s also i ...

Sleep — we all need it, but most people aren’t getting enough of it. Ideally, we spend about a third of our lives asleep. When we’r ...

Skydiving, BASE jumping, climbing the highest peaks, adventuring to remote parts of the world — pushing the boundaries of safety. For t ...

We all know the vow: “In sickness and in health.” But in reality, when serious illness enters a relat ...