A levitating frog, a necrophiliac duck, taxi drivers’ brains — the Ig Nobel prizes have shined a spotlight on offbeat work.

Scientists are piecing together the brain processes that underlie the wide-eyed wanting-to-know we generally think of as ...

The mummy is the first evidence from Asia of the saber-toothed cat species Homotherium latidens, Lopatin said, though ...

TIME100 Talks explored a crucial challenge: how to transform promising breakthroughs in science into real solutions.

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John Scott Award, created in 1816 as the John Scott Legacy Medal and Premium, is presented to men and women whose inventions ...

Launched in July 2022, NASA's EMIT mission aboard the International Space Station has evolved from mapping minerals in ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

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Nov. 20, 2024 — A recently published meta-analysis reveals an advantage in sports-related information processing compared to non-athletes. The data consisted of 21 studies involving a total of ...

It’s been two weeks since Donald Trump won the presidential election, but Stacey Lamirand’s brain hasn’t stopped churning. “I still think about the election all the time,” said the 60 ...

Living things evolve to fit in their environment. At UC San Diego they’re speeding up the process to create organisms that do some important jobs for us. KPBS Sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has ...