NASA / 05.23.2016 Our sun’s adolescence was stormy—and new evidence shows that these tempests may have been...
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© Parkin Parkin For decades, unidentified bodies have been consigned to the back rooms of morgues and all but forgotten....
These tiny implants can attract and capture cancer cells. Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering By Dr. Rachel...
The King’s Library / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Peter Jones Professor of History University of Birmingham, UK...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832 / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Victor Barsan and Dr. Andrei Merticariu...
Wes Mountain/The Conversation Our understanding of gravity has gone through a few permutations, from Newton’s equations through...
Researchers have built the first biologically realistic mathematical model of how the brain plans and learns when...
The term “pseudoscience” is used to imply that a person or group who is using the term...
Sunset on a Cretaceous River by Rhynn By Dr. Patrick Forber (photo) and Dr. Eric Griffith Forber...
© Job Boot Where do a zebra’s stripes, a leopard’s spots and our fingers come from? The...
Katherine Johnson worked at NASA’s Langley Research Center from 1953 to 1986. Since her retirement, she’s been...
© Greg White Meet the donors, patients, doctors and scientists involved in the complex global network of...
Coloured engraving from Joseph Racknitz’s 1789 pamphlet which attempted to reveal the secret workings of William Kempelen’s...
Understanding the cocktail of chemicals that fuel our consciousness By Jacob Devaney / 04.28.2016 As we dive...
© Gustav Almestå Losing your sense of smell takes away more than scents and flavours – it...
Daniel Y. Go via Flickr Creative Commons Exploring when is the right age to die. Do you...
From Will S. at TheLiteracySite.com: For most, the love of books starts in childhood. For others, this...
By Dr. Julie Robinson International Space Station Chief Scientist Collecting data before, during and after the mission...
Cranium of Sahelanthropus tchadensis: a 7 million year old member of the human evolutionary lineage from Chad....
Are you normal? What does it mean to be normal? Is it a good thing, or does...
An epidemiologist examines the sample taken from a patient thought to be infected with influenza A (H1N1)...
Electrical brain ‘signatures’. The patient to the left is in a vegetative state; the patient in the...
04.28.2016 Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s Planck and a large list of...
Karl Popper / Creative Commons Falsifiability, as defined by the philosopher, Karl Popper, defines the inherent testability...
© Adam Batchelor The human brain is special. Just not that special. To understand animal minds, and...
© Lightning + Kinglyface and Jess Bonham Most of us would rather not think about what happens...
“It felt like a sabbatical from my normal life to get up to speed on science,” says...
© Adam Batchelor If we met new life – on this planet or the next – would...
This Earth Day, NASA is giving the world an insider’s look into the myriad activities the space...
By Dr. Ellen Stefan NASA Chief Scientist “Sweet Moon,” William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,...