The Pulse

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Topics: Science · Health & Fitness

No. 142 in Science▲8

Go on an adventure into unexpected corners of the health and science world each week with award-winning host Maiken Scott. The Pulse takes you behind the doors of operating rooms, into the lab with some of the world's foremost scientists, and back in time to explore life-changing innovations. The Pulse delivers stories in ways that matter to you, and answers questions you never knew you had.

Latest episodeThe Ghost in the Machine: When Tech Seems to Have a Mind of Its OwnOctober 29, 2026 · 49 min

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Latest episodes

1. The Ghost in the Machine: When Tech Seems to Have a Mind of Its OwnOctober 29, 2026 · 49 min
2. Why Nurturing Connection is Good for Your HealthOctober 22, 2026 · 50 min
3. The Peptide Craze: Benefits, Risks and the Science Behind ThemOctober 15, 2026 · 50 min
4. Adult ADHD: Why You Know What to Do But Can’t Do ItOctober 8, 2026 · 50 min
5. The Fight to Save Rural Hospitals — and Access to HealthcareOctober 1, 2026 · 50 min
6. The Strange Science of Color — And Our Quest to Understand ItSeptember 24, 2026 · 50 min
7. How the Cereal Industry Won BreakfastSeptember 23, 2026 · 28 min
8. The Science of Eating: What We Get Wrong About Diet and NutritionSeptember 17, 2026 · 49 min
9. Under Pressure: How Weather Affects our HealthSeptember 10, 2026 · 50 min
10. 'I Could Have Been Lindsay Clancy’September 4, 2026 · 41 min

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