The specimen was discovered in the site of the Ewhurst brick and roof tile works, a clay quarry in Surrey, England, and the ...

Say what you will about Instagram, but the social media platform has undeniably contributed to the furthering of scientific ...

People too often forget that IQ tests haven’t been around that long. Indeed, such psychological measures are only about a century old. Early versions appeared in France with the work of Alfred Binet ...

Our country has a long and tortured history with food pyramids. The original dietary schematic, unveiled in 1992, had a firm foundation of carbohydrates—the bread, cereals, rice, and pasta group. It ...

Myriad studies focus on human sleep, from mapping circadian rhythms to determining optimal sleep length. But we’re not the only creatures that need some shut-eye. The same is also true even of ...

It’s not quite on the same level as Timon and Pumbaa or Marlin and Dory, but marine scientists have discovered a fascinating partnership between humpback whales and sea lions in Monterey Bay, ...

Being an entrepreneur is a high-risk, high-reward endeavor, but a new study suggests one of those rewards may be a longer life. A team of economic researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used for facial recognition, but how good is it? In lab conditions, it’s extraordinarily precise, correctly identifying people 99 percent of the time. In the ...

Biologists have long debated snake origins. Did they evolve in the sea, underground, or on land, given that today they inhabit all those environments? Now, an exceptionally preserved Cretaceous fossil ...

You’ve heard of the dark side of the moon, but NASA is also looking to explore a dark spot on the moon that it thinks may be a giant underground cave system. An image of the spot, known as the Marius ...