The Pulse Episode Archive

With the year’s biggest meal upon us, we look at the science of Thanksgiving dinner. On the menu is the gluten in dinner rolls, sal ...

President Obama’s carbon reduction agreement with China this week was criticized by Republican leaders including Mitch McConnell, w ...

This weekend, Matthew McConaughey will head into outer space on a quest to save mankind. The new mega sci fi movie directed by Christophe ...

Easy access to prescription pain pills has led millions of adults to addiction over the past two decades. Opioid addiction has hit the No ...

Observation is an important life skill—especially when it’s your job to save lives. It’s the first and most basic tool doct ...

Dear Science, This week, our Pulse team sat down to craft a special show that’s like a love letter to you. Of course ...

When you have a serious illness, and you’re confronted with several treatment options, who should choose the best path? You? Your d ...

Chances are, in all your visits to the doctor, you’ve been helped, at least once, by a physician assistant, or PA. As new patients ...

Usually, when we talk about climate change, we’re talking about things that might or might not happen 50 or 100 years from now. But ...

Fifteen seconds. That’s all it took to raze a 16-story public housing high-rise in Philadelphia last weekend. Only an implosion—a ...

Scientists hold the keys to our future, though few of them succeed at holding our attention long when they’re discussing their work ...

Scientists from Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia have just named a brand-new dinosaur—they dubbed ...

In the fight against obesity, public health officials, the government and doctors are trying all kinds of things. In Philadelphia, they ...

You know the feeling…you’re trying to come up with a witty line, a clever metaphor, a song, a poem…and nothing. The har ...

Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic blood disorder that affects about 100,000 people in the United States—mostly of African descent—maki ...