There's a phenomenon of human hearing known as binaural beats. It occurs when two pure tones of different frequencies are ...

Many animals seem to have a mysterious sixth sense that allows them to travel through the world in ways that humans can only ...

The cerebrum, especially the cerebral cortex, has long been thought to be the important part of our brain. However, the ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered that a magnetic brain treatment already used for depression can boost the brain’s ...

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A rainstorm gathers over the Los Alamos National Laboratory campus. Photo Courtesy LANL BY XUAN-MIN SHAOLos Alamos National ...

New research shows that certain moths, like the bogong moths, use the night sky and stars to navigate, just like humans do.

New research published in Physical Review Letters suggests that superconducting magnets used in dark matter detection ...

The device, called a milli-spinner, is a tiny, powerfully rotating hollow tube outfitted with fins and slits. In action, both ...

In the 1950s, a Broadway play tackled the fear that “electronic brains” would automate humans out of jobs.

NASA has revealed that they have sent a man-made machine further than they ever have before, and they said they made an odd ...

A tree-ringed African lake has yielded a record of Earth's magnetic field spanning the past 150,000 years. A core of rock and sediment drilled from the bottom of Lake Chala, a picturesque crater ...