“We were not expecting to find so much richness and depth, from a physics point of view, underneath the sole of a shoe,” study co-author Adel Djellouli, a physicist at Harvard University, tells ...

When people are shown a spiky shape next to a rounded one and asked which shape is called "kiki" and which one is "bouba," people from all kinds of cultures overwhelmingly associate "bouba" with the ...

From skating to curling, the thrilling sports of the Winter Olympics have plenty of science behind them. Follow our coverage here to learn more. Food is fuel. It sounds like a cliché, but if you are a ...

In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of Kyle Chayka’s column, Infinite Scroll. Chayka will return in March. Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia ...

Last weekend, I went to my hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia, and I attended Sunday morning services at my mother’s old church, St. Thomas à Becket Episcopal Church. I hadn’t visited in a few ...

Millennials love to talk—and gripe—about ambition. What was once a virtue has become a generational bugbear. Millennial women, raised on Girl Power and rom-coms in which the heroine gets the job and ...

World Cafe is kicking off another Sense of Place series this week. Our latest destination may only be a short train ride away from our Philadelphia headquarters, but Baltimore is a city like no other.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Savannah Guthrie stopped by The Today Show to share a some positive news after she recently stepped away from the NBC talk show to undergo vocal surgery. Guthrie appeared ...

new video loaded: The Sounds of Antarctica? Flying in the Cold? Your Questions, Answered transcript Is it hard to fly a helicopter in the Antarctic cold? What do penguins sound like? How about the ...

Have you ever wondered what sound goats make? If so, this post will grant you all the answers. Goats are popular farm animals, but some individuals have started keeping them as pets. These animals are ...

Cowbirds are famous for their remarkable song, a bubbling, liquid sound often compared to water droplets splashing into a pond. Now, scientists have uncovered how these birds pull off this acoustic ...