Tiny experiments offer a simple, flexible system to improve your life by fostering curiosity, adaptability, and low-pressure ...

Past neuroscience and psychology studies have shown that people's expectations of the world can influence their perceptions, ...

On March 24, at the annual Rencontres de Moriond conference taking place in La Thuile, Italy, the LHCb collaboration at CERN ...

Intermittent fasting has gained a following, in part because of tantalizing hints that it can boost cognition, fend off ...

This important study shows that the Nora virus, a natural Drosophila pathogen that also persistently infects many laboratory fly stocks, infects intestinal stem cells (ISCs), leading to a shorter life ...

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of ...

The scientific method has evolved to include various ways to establish probable causal relationship and to work these likely ...

Long-term studies at Georgia Tech and beyond show that evolution is happening right now. They capture the rise of new species ...

Who needs words when silence speaks louder? These anime don’t just cut the chatter, they turn quiet into a whole new language ...

The Big Bang Theory made science funny without trying too hard. It gave us a bunch of oddball geniuses who argued about string theory one minute and wore superhero costumes the next.

In 1796, Edward Jenner scratched a lesion of a milkmaid. He injected the material (pus) into an eight-year-old and then exposed the boy to smallpox, a highly infectious disease. The child remained ...