Talk about a lie detector test! Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are designing computer programs that can decode our brain activity and reveal what we're thinking about. See how they're doing it in this episode of Innovation...

After spending much of her life blind, Kathy Blake is seeing a glimmer of hope, thanks to an artificial retina developed by a company called Second Sight and the Doheny Eye Institute in Los Angeles. A camera is built into a pair of...

New evidence reveals a previously unknown population of ancient Native Americans. An NSF-funded team led by archaeologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks analyzed Ancient-DNA from the cremated remains of one of two already...

How could you pass up trying a Boom Bow IRL? It was fun, and a noise maker for sure!

Kate the Chemist explains her motivation -- beyond watching things explode. From NBC Nightly News to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Kate has been a fixture on the talk circuit of late, blowing things up whenever she gets the chance....

A conversation with Jessica Marquez, human systems engineer and research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.

Political scientist Ronald Inglehart, World Values Survey director at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, says greater economic growth, democratization and social tolerance in 45 of 52 countries for which substantial time series...

What’s the right balance between theory and observation? Dr. Michael Brown answers your question in this special “Mysteries of the Cosmos” edition of Ask a Scientist.

LIGO co-founder Rai Weiss talks about the complicated history of gravitational waves, a little about the LIGO detector and the first direct detection of gravitational waves, and a bit about the future.

Self-assembly is common in nature, and enables life to function, from healing damage to changing shape. Now, researchers at UCSD and NYU have developed a new way to mimic self-assembly in the lab, coaxing specially designed...

In this week’s episode, we learn how our smartphone can be used to check our cholesterol and that great white sharks actually live longer than previously thought! Check it out!

DARwIn-OP, which stands for Dynamic Anthropomorphic Robot with Intelligence–Open Platform, recently visited the National Science Foundation to participate in a video interview while he was in town for a National Robotics Week...

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Cyntrica Eaton is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at Norfolk State University in Virginia. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of several publications,...

Are you a community college student who has a novel idea that uses science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM)? The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) present the third...

National Science Foundation-funded researchers at the University of Georgia and Illinois State University explore past efforts to evacuate pets and their owners during 9 different disasters in the U.S. to identify how best to accommodate...