Why are there 60 seconds in a minute? And how does my brain predict if I'll be able to recall something or not?

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Cancer researchers have a multitude of tools to study tumors. Histological staining uses dyes to make different kinds of ...

Take a picture and send it with your comments to your congressional representatives. • Resist! Persist! Repeat! Weekly Protest, 11 am to noon, Mondays, corner of 29th and Willamette Street. • Protest ...

Veteran astronaut Don Pettit most recently spent five months in space and captured remarkable images. He’s taken nearly a million images and says they are a vivid display of beauty. Pettit has ...

From why the bots are taking over searches at Google, to what Donald Trump did in the UAE, we round up the week's big stories from the AI revolution. Arrthy Thayaparan reports. Aussie city votes ...

While speaking to Us Weekly at CBS Fest on Wednesday, May 7, costars Cedric the Entertainer and Max Greenfield reflected on their sitcom being renewed for its final season following ups and downs ...

BETHESDA, Md. — Dozens of current and former National Institutes of Health (NIH) staff, joined by supporters and public health advocates, are staging weekly vigils to protest sweeping cuts and ...

the association for science museums and other educational science centers in the U.S. The poll found that on a weekly basis more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports ...

Boys Behind in School: As the expectations for kindergarten have risen, the changes have put boys, who tend to mature later, at a disadvantage. Stop a Simulated Outbreak: How many people do you ...

Photos of the home where Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa’s dead bodies were found in February, and the images, released by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office, reveal the main house was ...