Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

Herlinde Koelbl's portraits of Nobel laureates (from left) Stefan Hell, Jennifer Doudna and Carolyn Bertozzi. Nobel-winning scientific discoveries can't often be distilled easily. Take the quantum ...