Multiple discovery is a concept of the evolution of scientific thinking as a social development. It highlights how advances in science come from original insight, and result from social processes.

In the past fifty years, hundreds of millions of Americans have gotten the flu shot. If you’re one of them (and unless you’ve been directly told not to get a shot by your physician, you should be one of these people), you might have experienced a pretty common side effect: a sore arm. Is this […]

Here's the scene. The audience is waiting with bated breath, you're just about to give a speech, and suddenly you notice your mouth is dry as sawdust. Why?

Are you familiar with sleep inertia?

Colobopsis explodens is a kind of ant where the workers will make themselves explode to release toxic goo that deters perceived threats.

Are you a twin? No, well are you sure? You could be a twin, but the twin is within, or a chimera. Learn more on this Moment of Science.

In 2018, two American researchers published evidence that individual differences in daily biological rhythms influence academic performance.

A small town in Australia is home to approximately seventy percent of the world's opals.

The human brain is pretty big compared to the brains of most other mammals. For example, a mouse brain weighs about 400 milligrams, while a human brain weighs nearly 1.5 million milligrams! And so, you may assume that, in the fetal stage, human brains develop from more starting material compared to the brain of a […]

Galaxies such as ours probably host several black holes. Not only that, but some of these black holes likely wander around the galaxies' edges.