How does the brain prepare to hear before birth? Johns Hopkins researchers discovered an internal neural "shortcut" that ...

Thomas Edison conducted tens of thousands of experiments in his lab in West Orange, New Jersey. See what a day's work looked ...

NASA is lighting the cosmos in red, white and blue in honor of the 250 t h birthday of the United States—and the show even ...

Merlin Bird ID will soon feed AI-powered bird identifications into Cornell's eBird platform, helping researchers monitor bird populations using millions of real-world observations.

The Multi-Sensory Convergence Ladder: As signals ascend deeper into the fish’s forebrain, specifically into a structure called the pallium, single-sense neurons give way to multi-sensory cells. This ...

A pair of recent studies by dream researchers suggest that the age-old advice may in fact be grounded in science.

This cell-like structure can grow, feed, divide and compete. Researchers ponder what it means for the future of synthetic ...

It catches very low frequency radio waves made by lightning, solar storms and charged particles moving through Earth’s ...

A new speaker array, an immersive surround system and machine-learning vocal isolation technology are transforming the experience at one of the world's most beloved concert venues.

A schoolbus-sized habitat anchored 56 feet underwater in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is readying to open its ...

When a bright fireball streaked across the Alaska sky last spring, the usual tools scientists rely on to track such ...

A new quantum device can generate precisely controlled bursts of sound-like particles, or phonons, by forcing electrons through an ultra-thin crystal at extremely low temperatures. The surprising ...