Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

On National Science Day, join Sarbani Basu as she shares her inspiring journey in astrophysics, unraveling the solar neutrino puzzle and promoting gender equality in science.

Everyone’s heard the advice to “sleep on it” when facing a tough problem. Turns out there’s real science behind that old wisdom. Researchers at Northwestern University have shown that dreams ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that caused by the observer moving through it. Known as the 'motion-source ...