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.

An ecological anomaly is at the center of the story in Barbara Kingsolver's Flight Behavior.

Caltech's solar toilet took top prize in the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge.

A connection between thinking and scratching shows how little we know about the tingles on our skin.

The editor and co-founder of The Annals of Improbable Research talks about why some seemingly absurd science matters.

Federal agency approves a license to build two nuclear reactors designed to provide cooling in absence of electricity.

Researchers hone in on where cancer cells live for answers about drug resistance.

Researchers say heat waves are 20 times more likely today than in the 1960s, due to global warming.

Can your eyes and ears affect your taste buds?

A sticky question that has plagued arachnologists for decades is finally untangled.