Your brain is constantly guessing what others think. Scientists just found the signal. In A Nutshell Researchers identified a specific brain signal that activates each time a person revises their ...

In A Nutshell A large Swedish study found workers in traditional open offices face about 67 percent higher odds of being ...

A proposed $1.3-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers port expansion in North Carolina threatens to unearth decades of “forever chemicals.” The government’s initial plan: don’t test the mud ...

Childhood diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of illness and mortality among children under five globally, particularly in developing countries.

A tiny piece of moss helped expose a cemetery scandal in Illinois, where workers allegedly dug up graves and resold burial plots. By identifying the moss and analyzing its chlorophyll to estimate its ...

We also wanted to] highlight the use of natural history collections and their stories and how they can be applied to questions and applied in ways we have yet to imagine.” Burr Oak Cemetery dates back ...

The word generally is translated to blue or green. It’s not as commonly used nowadays, as there are also separate words for blue and green, ...

For more than a decade, Evan Economo's lab has been using micro-CT machines to scan insect specimens. The resulting X-ray images help researchers study the form and structure of insects—a subfield of ...

Scientists at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have developed a new saliva test that could help ...

When a researcher wrote that maybe his peer review process would have gone better if he had cited the journal editor’s own papers, resignations and increased scrutiny followed.

Some bacteria can take a punch that would crush a submarine. In a new set of impact tests, one desert microbe, Deinococcus ...

In 2009, a scandal was exposed at a cemetery just outside of Chicago. Workers at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois, were ...