In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Scientists have shown that brain connectivity patterns can predict mental functions across the entire brain. Each region has ...

The motions of stars in the Milky Way have revealed a giant outward ripple, set off by a massive event sometime in our galaxy ...

A survey of chemists’ attitudes to correcting errors in scientific publications shows most prefer to discuss them informally ...

Jeremy Varon’s new book, “Our Grief is Not a Cry for War,” honors the commitment and complexity of the movements to end the ...

Eventually, however, the researchers found a plausible explanation in "seasonally varying investor risk aversion" Specifically, in the fall investors begin to suffer from seasonal affective disorder ...

There’s plenty of rough sex in the animal kingdom, but dinosaur copulation may have been so violent that it literally broke ...

Eventually, however, the researchers found a plausible explanation in "seasonally varying investor risk aversion" Specifically, in the fall investors begin to suffer from seasonal affective disorder ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

The Alt-Textbook Project gives instructors the ability to tailor their own course materials and then make them available for free or low cost to people around the world, not just students.

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith went down with the Lady Southern Cross in water off what was then Burma while attempting to break the England to Australia air speed record 90 years ago this week.