It’s been said that science is not truth, but rather finding the truth... always in flux as we learn more about the universe. Many scientists dream of the day (and put in the hard work toward) that ...

For years, students have heard the same advice from teachers and parents alike: put down the laptop and take notes by hand.

Carl Bergstrom is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle and the co-author of an open online course about how to learn and thrive in a ChatGPT world. Time is a precious ...

Music has been central to human cultures for tens of thousands of years, but how our brains perceive it has long been shrouded in mystery. Now, researchers at UC San Francisco have developed a precise ...

Cows are not necessarily known for their intelligence, but that less-than-stellar reputation is beginning to change. A ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide. Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only ...

Galileo's handwritten notes in a 1551 copy of Ptolemy's Almagest National Central Library of Florence Notes, annotations and a Bible verse handwritten by a young Galileo Galilei around 1590 have ...