A team of psychologists at the University of London, has found that people typically greatly underestimate how much their hands weigh. Their study has been published in Current Biology. Prior research ...

The TSA is experimenting with new ways to make airport security less of a headache, and it's leaning more on private ...

For years, scientific divers at a research station in the Mediterranean Sea had a problem: at some point in every field season, local fish would follow them and steal food intended as experimental ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hulu has ordered 10 episodes of a new social experiment series from Glenn Hugill, creator of “Deal or No Deal,” “The Mole” and ...

The retina is often referred to as an "outpost of the brain"—after all, important steps in visual signal processing do not take place in the cerebrum, but in the nerve cells in the eye. When light ...

Animals don't experience the world passively. A hawk tilts its head to track prey. A person leans forward to read a sign.

How does rapid burial work? New insights from experiments with echinoderms. Burial is a critical factor in the preservation of most fossils, keeping scavengers away and preventing the disarticulation ...

The scene is instantly familiar to any parent: A toddler curled up on the couch, a gentle episode of Little Bear playing softly. No chaotic colors. No screeching soundtrack. But then, when the credits ...