Fishing duo Cole & Jay test underwater snake behavior during a creek experiment.

Scientific findings are in the news. They're cited on food packages and beverage labels. They are discussed in podcasts and argued over by politicians and pundits. And each finding sits within a ...

The science pros at TKOR explore the bizarre properties of liquid helium.

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

More than 20 percent of Americans express little or no confidence in scientists to “act in the best interests of the public,” according to Pew’s latest polling. Just 13 percent gave that answer in ...

The ability to experience love at first sight rests on a cognitive skill you might not even realize you have: Humans are ...

A male fruit fly in a laboratory chamber extends his wings and vibrates them to produce his species' version of a love song.

Scientists have recorded same-sex behavior across many animal groups, including mammals, birds, and reptiles. Still, the meaning of that behavior depends on the species and the context. Behavior that ...

Apes share the human ability to imagine and pretend, suggests new research that included a series of tea party experiments.

If you think laughter and comedy are reserved strictly for humans, you’d be wrong. A study in the late 1990s showed that ...

As darkness retreats and flotation tanks gain popularity, a UCSD professor examines how “sensory deprivation” experiments ...