SCIENCE

Sinks and countertops get all the bad press, but the most bacteria are actually lurking somewhere else.

The short answer is that no one really knows why we yawn. But people have theories.

What distinguishes this kind of volcano from regular volcanoes, and what will happen if—or when—one erupts?

Reusable cloth grocery bags are hailed as a sustainable alternative to plastic, but the truth is more complicated.

While individual bubbles are fragile things, walls of them can muffle a major source of loud ocean noise.

“It just tastes funny” is only part of the difference between hard water vs. soft water.

Celine Dion recently announced that she has been diagnosed with stiff-person syndrome (SPS), a rare and progressive neurological disorder that only affects about one or two out of every 1 million people.

Holiday movies play to our nostalgia bias, a cognitive process that makes us long for past times because we think they were somehow better than now.

Scientists have finally visualized what happens when poo particles go airborne.

Some shark behaviors may look a little odd to us, but there are good reasons why they have evolved to perform them.

These sci-fi tales have gone beyond predicting technological advancements to directly inspiring scientific progress, from robotics to rocketry and everything in between.

Requiring a sufficiently large lake is only the first step in creating the monstrous blizzards known as lake-effect snow.