Science

Professor Zajonc was a psychologist who illuminated the mental processes that underpin social behavior and in so doing helped create the modern field of social psychology.

A stunning pictorial essay and a dynamic textbook that serves as a key to the animal kingdom.

Through dozens of short essays, each prompted by one of science’s visual creations, John D. Barrow conducts his own personal tour of the universe.

An Argentine-registered vessel carrying 82 passengers and 40 crew members suffered a puncture in two diesel fuel tanks.

Is the media entering a climate trance?

The Large Hadron Collider will run again next summer, but not at its full design strength, the project director said Friday.

Henry Gustav Molaison, or H.M., was recognized as the most important patient in the history of brain science.

States’ struggles to satisfy energy mandates offer lessons for the next administration.

A study of genetic signatures has provided new evidence of the mass conversions of Sephardic Jews and Muslims to Catholicism in the 14th and 15th centuries.

The unanimous ruling held that Britain’s policy of gathering and storing the fingerprints and DNA of all criminal suspects was a violation of the human right to privacy.

NASA has pushed back the launching of the Mars Science Laboratory by two years because of lengthening delays and lingering technical issues, officials announced.

In a world where there are so many things to be afraid of, add one more to the list - tiny components engineered on the nanoscale that could run amok inside the body.

A stimulus plan being fashioned will likely include an energy-efficiency component costing $15 billion or more.

Some 20 percent of people in the Iberian peninsula has Sephardic Jewish ancestry and 11 percent bear Moorish DNA signatures, a team of geneticists reports.

Mr. Selfridge was credited with coining the term "intelligent agents," for software programs capable of observing and responding to changes in their environment.

Couples around the country are having difficulty deciding whether to discard or donate extra embryos created by in vitro fertilization.

Farm emissions are being discussed during international talks on a new treaty to combat global warming.

A new study confirms that Tycho Brahe saw a common kind of star explosion that involves the explosion of a white dwarf star with a nearby companion in 1572.

The Environmental Protection Agency must revise its approach to assessing environmental health hazards and other risks, an expert panel is reporting.

The White House on Tuesday approved a final rule that will make it easier for coal companies to dump rock and dirt from mountaintop mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

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In an age of high-definition television it might seem peculiar to think that anyone would experience colorless dreams.