Science

This is your brain on movies

By Willis Raburu

Nothing makes a room full of strangers feel united quite like a movie. Now, science is trying to prove that you’re a lot more similar to your fellow popcorn eaters than you might think.

NASA explores the fashionable frontier

By Margaret Myers

Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the…

New report shows water on Saturn's moon

By PBS News Hour

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NASA sets solar flare images to music

By News Desk

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has released dramatic video of a "mid-level" solar flare from April 2. [youtube:http://youtu.be/_8yPQEE2Dnk] Flares are short, powerful bursts of radiation emitted from the sun's surface. NASA says the radiation cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere, but on rare…

Potentially lifesaving national landslide maps are 30 years out of date

By Tony Schick, Earthfix

The last time the U.S. Geological Survey made a national map of landslide hazards, it did so on paper. It didn't use laser imaging for landslide detection and it didn't render the maps with the high-powered geographic software near-universally…

NASA halts engagement with Russia in response to 'violation of Ukraine's sovereignty'

By Ellen Rolfes

NASA announced Wednesday that it is halting almost all of its activities and contact with Russia.

Is pot getting more potent?

By William Brangham

The average potency of pot has more than tripled in the past two decades, according to testing done for the federal government. This comes just over a year after Colorado and Washington legalized the drug and as many other states…