“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity.” Louis Pasteur said that in 1876. Today it would be more accurate to say that science belongs to the corporations and investors that ...

People’s brains change when they become parents. She studies father’s brains in particular, to understand which changes underlie might better parenting. And she wants to study a variety of brains. “If ...

A scientific squabble over how to define self-control draws from an unlikely source: A story from Greek mythology. Sailing home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, Odysseus longed to hear the Sirens’ ...

The ability to regulate our impulses and desires is indispensable to success in living and working with others. People with good control over their thought processes, emotions and behaviors not only ...

In laboratory experiments, the team used the device to send tiny, patterned bursts of light into the brains of genetically modified mice whose neurons respond to light. The mice quickly learned to ...

Science Magazine editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp recently declared that researchers need to get off the sidelines and into the gun-control debate. His call to action was wrong in every possible way.

For over a century, we’ve turned to technology in an attempt to control the weather. Are today’s geoengineering proposals any better? By Bill Gourgey Published Apr 29, 2024 9:53 AM EDT Get the Popular ...

Governments and farmers worldwide spend millions every year trying to control the weather. New science suggests they might be on to something Puffy clouds contain a breathtaking amount of water. The ...

At the end of April, air traffic control radar surveillance and radio communication systems at Newark Liberty International Airport went dark for over a minute. A week and half later, radar went down ...

Oregon State University researchers receive federal funding to explore electric technology for controlling weeds in organic ...

Most, if not all, forms of hormonal birth control, from pills to implants to intrauterine devices (IUDs), increase the risk of developing breast cancer, a new study suggests. It was known that ...

Darby Saxbe is worried her research funding might get canceled. People's brains change when they become parents. She studies fathers' brains, in particular, to understand which changes might underlie ...