Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears.

STANFORD, Calif. — A simple blood test might soon reveal whether your brain functions like a 30-year-old’s or a 70-year-old’s — and whether you’re likely to live a long, healthy life or face an early ...

Matteo Farinella's The Senses is an elegant comic book primer on the science of the senses. Farinella is a neuroscientist, comics artist, and Presidential Scholar in the Society and Neuroscience at ...

You have heard of dark matter right? The weird stuff that does not reflect light that makes up, oh, X percent of the universe (apparently). Now imagine that you are a super-intelligent little green ...