What does your taste in music say about your IQ? That's the question that Virgil Griffith from Caltech asked himself when he embarked on a study that compared SAT results with people's favorite bands.
This songbird may be tiny, but it managed a flight of epic proportions.
You may not be as smart as you think you are. A new study reveals that Google may be making people feel smarter than they actually are, which could have some serious repercussions for decision-making.
There may be a new and better method for predicting the number of hurricanes in an upcoming season.
Solitary confinement is typically known for restricting inmates to their cells for about 23 hours a day. Yet recent findings published in the Journal of Qualitative Criminology shows that prisoners involved in the study who received solitary confinement were no more or less likely to be violent behi...
New findings published in the journal Annals of Neurology have shown that the brain cells of mice with a model of Alzheimer's were given an experimental cancer drug that restored their memory.
New findings published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry have researchers uncovering the cause of "brain fog."
Plastic pollution is impacting our seas-everywhere from surface waters to the sea ocean. Now, though, scientists have made a somewhat unsettling discovery. I turns out that puffins on the Isle of May in Scotland are actually nibbling on little nuggets of plastic.
Some 300,000-year-old eggshells are telling scientists a bit more about the Paleolithic environment.
It's been almost five years since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploding, sending gallons upon gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists have assessed the wildlife in the Gulf, and have found that it's still suffering from the oil spill.
Do you give your child a sip of your wine or beer every now and then? Then he may be more likely to drink sooner. Scientists have found that children that receive a taste of their parents' wine may be more likely to start drinking by high school than their peers.
Scientists have taken a closer look at the massive star-forming region, IRAS 16547-4247, and have learned a little bit more about how monstrous stars are born.
