The Pulse Episode Archive

Sometimes the signs of things to come are right before our eyes, but the question is: do we notice them? And if so, how do we interpret t ...

With an exciting year in the world of health and science winding down, we’re listening back to some of our favorite moments from ou ...

The mouth is the window to the soul. It’s prime real estate in your body, and every biological system that you have puts up a flags ...

How do we fight an enemy if that enemy is within us? On this week’s show, we look at what happens when your body turns against you. ...

When we’re confronted with new information, we instinctively question whether it comes from a reliable source – and that thir ...

What does it take to produce the overabundance of food that constantly surrounds us? On this week’s show, we take a trip to Russia, ...

This election has made Americans feel deeply divided around a lot of issues – it’s as if we’ve lost our ability to connect to one a ...

This election season has put people at odds with one another. Deep divisions among Americans are amplified by the rapid-fire news cycle a ...

This rebroadcast show is all about the human body – more specifically, what happens to us after weR ...

We interact with our world every single day, but it’s not often that we take a step back and think about how those tiny interaction ...

Now for our feature presentation: we’re going to explore the science of movie magic as seen on the big screen and behind the scenes ...

From a pain in the leg, to death without much warning, we explore how an issue that kills 60,000 Americans each year often goes unnoticed ...

Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it — copulate, that is. We step into the facinating kingdom of animal sex with biologis ...

Would you buy a car that’s programmed to potentially kill you? No way, right? But, as driverless cars are beginning to hit t ...

Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...