The Pulse Episode Archive

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

The United States spends more on health care than any other country in the world — and that spending is going up every year. In some re ...

Artificial intelligence has seen huge advances in the last decade, very notably in the technology of natural language processing. NLP has ...

Intelligent machines will play a much larger role in the future than they do now, and we’re trying to imagine that future as we’re ra ...

In a lot of ways, artificial intelligence acts as our personal butlers — it filters our email, manages the temperature in our homes, fi ...

Menopause typically happens during a time of life when women need to be on top of their game; managing their careers, raising children, a ...

There’s long been an idea that sharing our DNA for research benefits the greater good — that it leads to new insights, new medication ...

The patch, the gum, lozenges, medication — it seems like there are endless ways to quit smoking. But for some people, none of them work ...

Energy fuels our lives in ways that seem almost magical. It can transform darkness into light, cold into warmth, water into ice. Of cours ...

Over the past year, public health officials went from being the people who nudge us not to smoke, not to drink and drive, and to eat our ...

“Trust the science!” It’s a phrase we’ve heard a lot during the pandemic. It’s come to mean things like “wear masks” or ...

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 ...