Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings ...

A bonobo named Kanzi surprised scientists by successfully playing along in pretend tea party experiments, tracking imaginary juice and grapes as if they were real. He consistently pointed to the ...

A bonobo demonstrated the ability to track imaginary objects in controlled tests, challenging the belief that imagination is uniquely human and hinting at deep evolutionary roots. In a set of ...

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning ...

An intrepid team of scientists has created “Smart Underwear” to measure human flatulence in a bid to better understand our ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

Using gold flakes, salt water, and light, scientists have made the universe’s invisible binding forces visible in color. The discovery opens new possibilities for studying how matter organizes itself ...

Now based between London and Los Angeles, Helmi is pushing into public-health conversations and fire-aware landscapes in Southern California. “As we approach the first anniversary of the Los Angeles ...

At the smallest scales of nature, the rules of the world shift in ways that can feel unsettling and beautiful at the same ...

Have you ever looked at a pile of kitchen scraps and wondered if they could have a second life? Instead of tossing them into ...

Purdue will celebrate the nation's 250th anniversary with lectures, activities and campus events, beginning with a Feb. 26 ...

We are told we need cynical strategies to "play" the dating game, but the science says this is totally wrong. David Robson enjoys an evidence-based takedown from psychologist Paul Eastwick ...