Research in the late 1990s showed that not only do some rats laugh when being tickled, such behavior can be selected for ...

There is something perversely ironic about the current state of the Rangers and Penguins, after the two clubs swapped coaches ...

Most Latin American countries have access to the coast, comprising 8.8% of the world's coastlines. The carbonate system in ...

Overall, the 80-by-65-yard Pro Bowl field is the “biggest venue we’ve ever had within a venue,” Ewell said, and it’s been ...

Physicists have observed a strange new quantum phase in a graphene-based system, where a superfluid appears to freeze into a solid-like state. Cooling usually pushes matter through a simple sequence.

The 'human-in-the-loop' approach manifests in three radically different ways, with profound implications for performance and skill development.

Serendipitous observations have shaped science for centuries. What happens to such discoveries when the academic atmosphere leaves no room for detours?

The 20th century was marked by the discovery of exotic states of matter. First, liquid helium was observed to flow without friction at extremely low temperatures, a phase now known as superfluid. Soon ...

CERN's ALICE experiment has resolved the puzzle of deuteron formation, showing that most deuterons form via resonance-driven ...

Intrinsic neural attractors and extrinsic environmental inputs jointly steer the dynamic trajectories of brain activity ...

Experiments with identical replicas of Thomas Edison's original light bulbs shows the inventor may have accidentally created ...

Trying to find a toy that pleases everyone is usually a nightmare, but it’s basically a lost cause when you’re dealing with ...