From the beginning of time to the origins of life, our "when" special series tackles the timing of crucial events and the ...

John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

The photoelectric effect, first explained by Albert Einstein in 1905, laid the foundation for quantum mechanics. It occurs when high-energy light strikes atoms, releasing electrons. This phenomenon is ...

"Initial drilling has provided encouraging results supporting our belief that the Nyngan project is a new porphyry district ...

In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

In addition to being a runnable CLI tool, D2 can also be used to produce diagrams from Go programs. For examples, see ./docs/examples/lib. This blog post also demos a complete, runnable example of ...

While the Big Bang Theory is widely supported within the scientific community, some researchers propose alternative ideas, such as eternal inflation or a cyclical, oscillating universe.

A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the Trump administration will shift the ...

Key to this process are study sections – panels of scientists and subject matter experts tasked with evaluating grant applications for scientific and technical merit. Study sections are overseen ...

A small but growing movement of scientists wants to classify aging as a disease. They face an uphill battle.

20 years after the conclusion of the original film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings returned to the zeitgeist with a beautifully shot half-billion-dollar season of television, and the promise of new ...