The Pulse Episode Archive

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 ...

Owning a pet means making decisions that affect their health — from what they eat, to whether and how much they exercise, to how they s ...

The pandemic has changed the way a lot of us understand and experience happiness. In normal times, we think of happiness as a big-picture ...

We all know that drinking a lot of alcohol is bad for your health. It’s tied to heart disease, heightened risk for some cancers, addict ...

Most of us trust our doctors to figure out what’s wrong with us — but pinpointing illness isn’t always that easy. Sometimes, gettin ...

One in five Americans live in a multigenerational household — that means at least two separate adult generations share the space. Think ...