In this installment of The Pulse on the public radio station WHYY, The Scientist’s associate editor Kerry Grens talks about a new fossil unearthed in China that may change the way science views flight in dinosaurs, research that get make genetic, rather than electric, pacemakers one step closer to reality, and the recent problems with how US government labs are handling samples of dangerous pathogens.

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