Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

Randall Munroe once designed robots at NASA, and now he's undertaken a comparably tough task: describing the science of complex "stuff" such as elevators, the Mars Curiosity rover and nuclear ...

Propylene, the key ingredient in household plastic containers, has been discovered in the atmosphere of Saturn's smoggy moon Titan — marking more firsts for planetary science. It's the first ...

Craig talks with the father of sleep medicine, William C. Dement, about the discovery of REM sleep, its connection to dreaming, and how that breakthrough revolutionized the science of sleep!

A new study suggests that although neutron stars may be weird, they’re not strange.

Study co-author Michael Demkowicz, a Texas A&M University professor of materials science and engineering, predicted self-healing in metal a decade ago.

Yes, I have created science stuff for most of these cases—I would consider myself a science writer and a scientific consultant. From this, I have developed the number one rule of scientific writing.

Long before Brookhaven's scientists started to trap neutrinos, other scientists spun far-ranging theories about the little particles. Neutrinos may be small and shy, says Chinese-born Dr. Hong-Yee ...