For 30 years, Henrietta Swan Leavitt flooded notebooks with meticulous data nested inside hand-drawn tables. She and her fellow female “Harvard computers” earned 25 cents an hour to track the ...

It never ceases to amaze me how intelligent birds are, specifically the vocal Parrot species who pick up words, phrases, and even songs like it's no big deal. Ten-year-old Cockatoo Sophie is among ...

The childhood songs stuck in your head are actually protecting your memory Remember singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” ...

We all know how the lullaby goes, but now astrophysicists have finally caught up — reproducing the eerie thrumming sound of a star's "twinkle, twinkle" for the first time. By simulating the turbulent ...