A conversation with Sir Stephen Fry is a whirlwind of eclectic and esoteric references across a staggering diversity of knowledge that is stochastically connected in his polymathic mind to produce ...

Maryland filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday in an effort to obtain records detailing conditions at the immigration detention ...

The discomfort you feel about your smart home isn't technophobia — it's your nervous system correctly recognizing that your most intimate space now operates according to a chain of command you never ...

The universe is a place of unimaginable beauty and wonder—shimmering galaxies that dance across the cosmic stage, nebulae ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Explore why haunted house cinema taps into our deepest psychological fears more effectively than traditional monster movies.

The soda straw formations are another geological curiosity that sounds more like something from a diner menu than a cave feature. These thin, hollow tubes hang from the ceiling, formed by water ...

Tracy Larson, University of Virginia assistant professor of biology: We can find cases where animals just do things better than we do. In the case of birds, they show this extreme ability to ...

Researchers have created one of the most realistic “mini-brains” yet, reports New Scientist, growing a tiny version of a developing human cerebral cortex, complete with a network of blood vessels that ...

Real estate agents will tell you that a home’s most important feature is “location, location, location.” It’s similar in neuroscience: “Location is everything in the brain,” said Bosiljka Tasic, a ...