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A new breed of scientists says that if you want to understand why people make financial decisions, you need to see what's going on inside their brains
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The new type of temporary electronics could be implanted in the body or used to monitor the environment without a need for cleanup afterward
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Physicist Michio Kaku says we'll be able to clone dinosaurs in the future, but he glosses over some crucial technicalities
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A small plant native to Australia features two sets of touch-sensitive tentacles to catapult insects towards its digestive concavity and then draw them in deeper
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Anthropologists rely on a variety of fossil, archaeological, genetic and linguistic clues to reconstruct how people populated the world
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This year's Wellcome Image Award winners pull at your "art" strings. The curious seek out the science behind them
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Researchers are looking into a naturally-occuring virus which preys upon the skin bacteria that trigger outbreaks of acne
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Feathered dinosaurs are wonderful, but DinoTime 3D makes them look stupid
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A new development in the ongoing Tarbosaurus struggle complicates attempts to send the dinosaur home
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Here's the latest on robots that work with humans, a revolutionary camera, home 3-D printers, mobile wallets and Google's driverless car
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In a new book, Steven Johnson encourages us to lose top-down hierarchies, typical of companies, and instead organize around peer networks
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Carnivorous theropod dinosaurs were thought to be hydrophobic, but swim tracks show that these predators at least sometimes took a dip in lakes and rivers
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A new study indicates that the gatekeepers of science, whether male or female, are less likely to hire female applicants to work in labs
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Neanderthals may have used feathers as personal ornaments, which suggests our cousins were capable of symbolic expression
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Directors take note: scientist and author David Kirby commends the accuracy in these popular films
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A new study indicates that having a winning sports team may make us more likely to reelect an incumbent politician
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Everyone knows that Godzilla is a radioactive dinosaur, but just what sort of dinosaur is the famous monster?
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A mutation in one gene produces tabby cats with blotches and cheetahs with stripes
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Scientists reveal that surges of a chemical in an unexpected area of the brain might make us crave sweets
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Adult T. rex had the most powerful bite of any creature to walk the earth, but they had to grow into that destructive power
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