Scientific breakthroughs Byron Caughey made over his lifetime made him a “giant” in the world of prion research, and touched ...

Right now, you’re flying through space at millions of kilometres per hour… and you don’t even feel it. The air around you is ...

People can develop false memories with shocking ease. Your brain is not a reliable narrator. You’re slightly taller in the morning than at night. Gravity is quietly winning every day. The average ...

Here, ‘weirdness’ abounds. The platypus, for example, seemingly has the beak of a duck, the body of an otter, and the tail of a beaver. It lays leathery eggs like a reptile, yet feeds milk to its ...

He was never afraid to get his hands dirty, to get up close and personal with any and every kind of critter and creature near ...

Astronomers have discovered seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around the baby sunlike star providing *** peek into the start of our own solar system. The the thing that we've discovered is ...

They’re the big guys at the bird feeder, arriving with a bright blue flash and a shrill jay! jay! call. One of our larger North American songbirds, Blue Jays are year-round residents in woodlands, ...

Bill Nye “The Science Guy” invokes everything except science in his criticism of the Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of its 2009 finding that greenhouse-gas emissions endanger public ...

Despite activist claims about trace amounts of glyphosate in foods like cereal, you'd need to eat absurd quantities- like 30+ bowls of Cheerios daily for over a year, before you approach the EPA's ...

Most of us walk around every day thinking we know exactly how our own skin and bones operate, but the reality is that the human body is a collection of high-tech systems that would make a sci-fi ...

SAUGUS — Kids got to head to the Saugus Public Library Friday morning for a lesson in science from the educational entertainment company Science Heroes, giving them a chance to join in on experiments ...