The Pulse Episode Archive

Advances in science don’t just happen — sometimes, real progress requires heroic measures. On this show, we explore the lengths peopl ...

Medicine, healthcare — even illness — vary from country to country. Those differences are driven by tradition, culture, even politics ...

Technology helps us run our lives, do our jobs, get directions and keep track of our calendars. Right? Or, is technology taking control o ...

It’s been a year since Hurricane Maria swept through Puerto Rico, destroying lives and reducing many communities to rubble. The storm a ...

School is a place where kids learn about health — everything from nutrition to avoiding STDs. But increasingly, schools across the coun ...

From panic disorders to social phobia, anxiety is the most common mental health condition in the United States. What toll does anxiety ta ...

We travel to experience awe or learn something new — maybe even to get our worldview shaken up a bit. On this episode, The Pulse explor ...

In science and medicine, we often fail to predict the outcomes of our experiments and actions. The result: unintended consequences. Somet ...

For a long time disability meant one thing — limitations. Think about the word disabled: its literal meaning is broken, not functioning ...

The Pulse explores how the environment shapes biology. Turns out that influence goes deep, down to the molecular level — to th ...

As drug overdose deaths continue to soar, cities hit hard by the opioid crisis are considering a controversial new proposal: safe injecti ...

Rebroadcast: Happy Birthday, America! From the very beginning, science has shaped this country. Many of the Founding Fathers — Madison, ...

Sometimes it feels like the world is conspiring to make us pack on the pounds — we sit at desks all day, grab fast food on the run, and ...

The Atlantic hurricane season is here — that time of the year when tropical storms whip their way in from the sea, cutting paths of des ...

We have dogs to thank for pacemakers. We probably should be a little grateful to mice for the development of chemotherapy. Cows helped us ...