Science

After 100 years, Brontosaurus name may be making a comeback

By Justin Scuiletti

After more than a century of extinction in the scientific community, the name Brontosaurus may be ready to return to the ranks of its dinosaur brethren.

A reactivated Large Hadron Collider set to explore ‘uncharted territory’

By Justin Scuiletti

The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, which has granted scientists a look at the beginnings of our universe, was just granted a new beginning.

Want more women in science and math? Pay attention to group projects, study suggests

By Laura Santhanam

Group projects may hold the key to getting more girls and women to enter science, technology, engineering and math or fields that men otherwise dominate.

Brain ‘gender’ more flexible than once believed, study finds

By Carey Reed

A team of researchers successfully changed the gender in the brains of newborn rats from female to male, according to findings published this week in Nature Neuroscience.

Babies resemble tiny scientists more than you might think

By Laura Santhanam

A new Johns Hopkins University study has found that when an object behaves in an unusual way, the baby will explore more, learn more and test the object's behavior.

This tiny songbird flies Canada to Puerto Rico nonstop

By Jenny Marder

Every year, from September to November, millions of tiny songbirds gather along the Northeastern coastline, get fat feasting on insects and take to the skies. And then they fly and they fly and they fly. It’s long been believed…

How a gentle electrical jolt can focus a sluggish mind

By PBS News Hour

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How zapping his brain made Miles O’Brien a better pilot

By News Desk

At Ohio's Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Science correspondent Miles O'Brien tests the effectiveness of brain stimulation by performing a tricky helicopter landing with -- and without -- a jolt to the brain.