Scientists have traced the roots of languages like English and Spanish back to present-day Turkey.

This year's flu season is off to a later start than any other year on record, according to the CDC.

Experts discuss electric car technology and the auto industry.

Why does looking a picture of a human embryo elicit strong feelings?

Tom Turpin and Kristin Schleiter discuss how an early spring can affect flower buds and bees.

Stony Brook University archaeologist Elizabeth Stone describes her recent trip to Iraq.

Could a comet or an asteroid be to blame for the fireball on Jupiter? Watch and listen about the impact of the object on Jupiter. [10:10]

How likely are voters to notice when a politician dodges a question? Not very, says one study.

Sinuses, too, are healthier when populated by a diverse colony of bugs.

Experts debate whether government regulations are an effective way to fight the obesity epidemic.

Feeling a little overwhelmed by all the presidential polls? A neuroscientist and statistician talk about how to make sense of the election -- and why not all votes are created equal.

What do Earth's radiation belts sound like? Wonder no more.

Will the next human pandemic start in an animal? Writer David Quammen talks about Ebola, HIV and other diseases that Spillover from animals to humans.

The work of Nikola Tesla is described, and the crowdfunding campaign led by Matthew Inman, who created The Oatmeal humor website. He succeeded in raising over one million dollars to buy Tesla's laboratory in New York, and turn it into a...

Why you have to overcome irritation in order to examine it.

Mars Science Laboratory project scientist John Grotzinger describes plans for the Curiosity rover, now in Gale Crater on Mars.

Neuroscientist Stuart Firestein discusses why ignorance is key to scientific discovery.

A smashup between two galaxy clusters left an unexpected amount of dark matter in its wake.

For some scientists, a regular day at the office is training a guinea fowl to run on a treadmill.

A look at new partnerships that take drug development out of the clinic and into the real world.

If Congress fails to act, some $15 billion will be cut from science funding in January 2013.

In his latest book, neurologist Oliver Sacks explores the strange world of hallucinations, and documents his own experiments with psychedelic drugs.

One of the casualties of Hurricane Sandy was the death of thousands of lab mice due to flooding at New York University. What impact on important scientific research will this have? For example, mice are critical in brain research. Aired...

A look beneath Earth's surface at what may be causing the planet's poles to wander back and forth.