The scientists found that cognitive ability strongly influenced how well participants understood speech in noisy conditions.

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

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Researchers found that chimpanzees update their beliefs based on evidence, showing a human-like ability to reason and reflect ...

Scientific knowledge is fundamentally built on data; yet, for too long, research datasets have remained siloed, poorly ...

The Bat Brigade meets weekly at UW-Madison's Lakeshore Nature Preserve from April through October to collect data on different species of bats.

The New Scientist Book Club has various issues with Masud Husain's prize-winning popular science book about neurology ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave talk about spider web architecture, storytelling and memory, and why more TV pixels may not translate to a better viewing experience.

Casey Means, the proponent of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, was expected to be grilled about her past financial arrangements and criticisms of mainstream medicine.

It was here, surely with the help of this lovely library collection, that Hale invented the spectrohelioscope, which you can ...

A new study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology has found that leg loss doesn’t slow tarantulas almost at all.

The high cost of publishing open access has plagued researchers for years, but a dedicated group of Harvard scientists and librarians are fighting to alleviate the costs of publishing.