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Mimicking bats and dolphins, some people have developed the ability to analyze bouncing sound waves to generate a picture of their environment
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What happens when your eyes and brain don't agree?
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Preindustrial workers built huge industries based on the liquid's cleaning power and corrosiveness--and the staler the pee, the better
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Near-death sightings of light at the end of a tunnel may be related to the 30 seconds of activity in rats' brains after their hearts stop
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Will 100 become the new 60? And do we really want that to happen?
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Regular ingestion of the drug alters your brain's chemical makeup, leading to fatigue, headaches and nausea if you try to quit
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Researchers pinpointed the molecule responsible for the searing pain of a burn, and may have found a new way of eliminating it entirely
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Getting away from artificial light and basking in sunlight can reset your internal clock, new research shows
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Women who constantly binge on junk food while pregnant might pass their penchant for sweet and fatty food on to their children, a new study suggests
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Volker Steger photographs Nobel laureates posing with sketches of their breakthrough findings
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An artist-scientist duo shares nearly 100 images of modern art with a ghastly twist—they're all close-ups of human diseases and other ailments
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With so much interest in what's in our meals, food innovators are focusing on making the healthy palatable.
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Although the strange sensation's cause remains unknown, scientists are searching for ways to induce that nagging feeling of familiarity
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Blood type, metabolism, exercise, shirt color and even drinking beer can make individuals especially delicious to mosquitoes
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Reading, writing and other mental exercises, if habitual from an early age, can slow down the age-related decline in mental capacity
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By mixing different types of stem cells in petri dishes, researchers created liver "buds" that effectively filtered blood when implanted in mice
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Staph microbes with resistance to common treatments are much more common in industrial farms than antibiotic-free operations
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Just posting calorie counts isn't very effective. What may work, though, is framing overeating in terms everyone understands
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
A new type of cell could lead to dramatic cures—and avoid ethical controversy
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Pinpointing exactly why we yawn is a tough task, but the latest research suggests that our sleepy sighs help to regulate the temperature of our brains
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