We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage ...

A new study by neuroscientists at Northwestern University validates the possibility of influencing dreams and offers a crucial step to support the theory that dreams in REM sleep — the rapid eye ...

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise.

Recent research suggests that the way a person breathes does more than simply sustain life. Respiratory patterns may actually predict moments of joy and excitement before they occur. A study published ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

When most people think of self-care, they picture indulgence — a scented candle, a hot bath, a weekend off scrolling through social media. These practices can feel comforting, but they rarely produce ...

Experiments involving playing music during sleep have revealed a type of dream engineering that doubled subjects' ...

With special education staffing shortages worsening, schools are using AI to draft IEPs, support training, and assist ...

From autonomous cars to video games, reinforcement learning (machine learning through interaction with environments) can have ...

Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than ...

The architect Bruce Goff built a mind-blowing array of eccentric, occasionally campy buildings, which are featured in a ...

Global climate models capture many of the processes that shape Earth's weather and climate. Based on physics, chemistry, ...