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Jason Padgett got hit on the head, and now he’s a math genius. Seriously.If Jason Padgett’s story weren’t backed up by scientific evidence, it would be…

There's probably no recipe more famous (or infamous) among NPR listeners than Mama Stamberg's cranberry relish. This relish has a tangy taste that cuts…

A new book provides a glimpse of what life was like for the sailors, rather than scientists, aboard an ocean-going research ship in the mid-twentieth…

Scientists have proposed calling this the Anthropocene - the man-made epoch. Now, add evolution to the list of things humans are reworking.We tend to…

Extinct species left fossils, ancient humans left cave paintings and tools. What did the storms of centuries past leave behind? Sand.It may not sound like…

Contagious cancer is rare, thankfully. Until recently, there were only three documented examples, none of them in humans (again, thankfully) - a facial…

Chances are, you have a pretty good idea what a plant looks like. Roots, stems, leaves, flowers ... these are the things that make plants, plants. But it…

As the Navy continues to search for the doomed cargo ship El Faro, the loss has an eerie resemblance to the Derbyshire disaster some three decades before.…

Hsueh-tze Lee always thought she would have a career in science, but her passion for dance took her in a different direction. Lee, who studied at MIT and…

On September 21, 1938, New England was slammed by a hurricane that remains the most damaging weather event to ever hit the region. The category 2…