We’ve probably all had a few conversations with people who hold eccentric scientific ideas, and most of the time they yield ...

This valuable study addresses a critical and timely question regarding the role of a subpopulation of cortical interneurons (Chrna2-expressing Martinotti cells) in motor learning and cortical dynamics ...

ANSWER: The body mass index (BMI, which the chart was probably derived from) is a tool used to estimate body shape.

Research shows in-office BP measurement is often done incorrectly, leading to false results. Physician leaders discuss why ...

In spaces smaller than a wavelength of light, electric currents jump from point to point and magnetic fields corkscrew through atomic lattices in ways that defy intuition. Scientists have only ever ...

If the claim is really false but the researcher decides, based on the evidence, it’s true – a false positive – they commit what’s called a Type 1 error. If the claim is really true but the researcher ...

At the end of the 1600s, Newton proposed the universal law of gravitation: that every particle attracts every other particle ...

Measure twice, cut once. That’s sound advice, though no guarantee you won't measure wrong twice. Some measuring errors occur ...