The Pulse Episode Archive

Scalpels, suction tubes, heart monitors—these are some of the instruments you will find in an operating room. But when you, the patient ...

Yoga during lunch and nutrition counseling right in your office sound like a good deal. But as workplace wellness programs become more po ...

Today’s show includes a few snapshots from physicians’ lives, a game of darts that results in a research effort, a quest to c ...

The space race, even in its dullest moments, is pretty darn exciting. It’s a testing ground of ingenuity, physical strength, econom ...

Today’s show is about moments. Life-changing moments, moments that offered new insights into age-old questions, and “a ha! ...

This week’s show is all about that crazy little thing called love—not to mention lust—and we’re breaking them down to the ...

Our first story takes us to the New Jersey shore, where the effects of Hurricane Sandy are still lingering. Public health officials say l ...

This week on The Pulse, we take a trip into the unknown. We explore things many people swear by but the science to support them isn’ ...

We start off this week’s show with an installment in our occasional series, “Pain in the Neck” where we talk about the ...

Remember the HAL 9000 from the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey? Though it seemed like pure wild imagination that a computer could se ...

A group of students at Columbia University in New York are creating projects detailed in a series of 16th century French manuscripts call ...

Every morning, countless masses of fitness buffs dutifully record their breakfast menu, their exercises, and other health metrics, in app ...

Typically, getting in a nasty car accident hinders your life, but in the case of 24-year-old Albert Leva, rear-ending a car full of under ...

This week, The Pulse kicks off a new series looking at the role technology is playing in our well being…”Bit By Bit: How data ...

College students around the country are demanding that their schools divest from fossil fuels. That would mean selling off investments in ...