Without us even noticing it, our brains are the ultimate multitaskers. The brain’s prefrontal cortex can tell us when it is ...

Randall Munroe once designed robots at NASA, and now he's undertaken a comparably tough task: describing the science of complex "stuff" such as elevators, the Mars Curiosity rover and nuclear ...

Propylene, the key ingredient in household plastic containers, has been discovered in the atmosphere of Saturn's smoggy moon Titan — marking more firsts for planetary science. It's the first ...

In this twist on Cooking with Carson, we haul and review four Dollar Tree Science Kits from the Science for Kids brand. These ...

Craig talks with the father of sleep medicine, William C. Dement, about the discovery of REM sleep, its connection to dreaming, and how that breakthrough revolutionized the science of sleep!

So, as frustrating as it may be in the moment, breaking stuff is an absolutely essential part of the progress of experimental science.

That is the take-away message from Mark Miodownik's entertaining and informative Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World. Miodownik holds two titles at ...

A new study suggests that although neutron stars may be weird, they’re not strange.

Yes, I have created science stuff for most of these cases—I would consider myself a science writer and a scientific consultant. From this, I have developed the number one rule of scientific writing.