Author: Rebecca Heilweil

We do actually become less attentive as we get older, but refocusing someone's attention can have concrete physical effects.

In the first solar geoengineering experiment in the lower atmosphere, scientists will test a recipe that could provide some temperature control back on Earth.

Did you know human salivary glands pump out about a quart—a Big Gulp!—a day?

Beyond sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, we have an inner sense that allows us to perceive ourselves.

Michael McAlpine, a mechanical engineer at the University of Minnesota, has spent the past six years making a less synthetic kind of prosthetic.

The MARS scanner, armed with particle-detecting tech used in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, lets us see so much more beyond the bone.

Scientists and religious leaders joined forces to create programs on neuroscience, cosmology—and even some evolutionary science.

This so-called blood moon will be visible from every continent on Earth except North America.