Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions.

If you've noticed that your brain seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to retaining new information, don't worry! Psychology offers some fascinating insights into this puzzling situation that ...

On the August 26th episode of “Particles of Thought,” a brand new podcast series affiliated with the popular PBS documentary series Nova, astrophysicist Hakeem Olusey invited Professor Hany Farid as a ...

What gives you goosebumps? Person 1: Touching corduroy with the back of my hand. Person 2: Biting into cold fruit. It sort of ...

Nearly every four years, the Gregorian calendar — which is used in the majority of countries around the world — gets an extra day: February 29. For some people, leap day means frog jokes and ...

Interruptions, to-do lists, lack of autonomy — “time poverty” depends more on perceived shortages of time than actual ones, recent research suggests.