You can engage your brain and improve your happiness. A neuroscience expert shares five simple steps that can do the trick.

A study reveals random exploration outperforms focused analysis—shedding scientific light on non-ordinary ways of knowing.

The race to develop a virtual scientist—an AI creation that conducts every stage of research, from idea to publication—has ...

Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be ...

Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

Celery is a good choice for this. Add water to a large water glass. Cut 2 inches off the base of a store-bought celery bunch. Stick toothpicks around the base and immerse the bottom of the bunch in ...

We've been trained to 'see something, say something' about danger. What if we did the same for what's good? It takes 10 seconds, and the research says the giver benefits most.

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...

Networks of molecules in our body behave as though they have goals and desires. Understanding this phenomenon could solve the ...

In the early 1970s, Dimitrije Milovich and Wayne Stoveken began building boards meant specifically to surf the snow, testing ideas in Utah’s deep powder. This became Winterstick, one of the earliest ...

By age 2, most kids know how to play pretend. They turn their bedrooms into faraway castles and hold make-believe tea parties. The ability to make something out of nothing may seem uniquely human — a ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Everyone knows it's cold it is outside. The entire Philadelphia region has remained below freezing for the seventh day in a row, with little relief in sight. But we are tapping ...