New brain scans are helping sort out how our brains process imagined thoughts versus real sensations.
This is a trait in which one kind of sensory input, such as sound, can trigger another sense, such as sight.
Though they can look like rocks or plants, corals are animals. Most are made up of colonies of individuals called polyps.
Millions of treasures stashed in this museum storage site — open only to select visitors — tell the history of Earth's inhabitants.
As expert echolocators make multiple clicking sounds, their brains process the echoes to help them perceive their surroundings.
These massive wildflower blooms create colorful carpets over desert landscapes during unusually rainy years.
The footage shows other sperm whales huddled around the mother, helping lift the newborn calf to the surface until it’s ready to swim.
With real-time feedback, people can learn to turn on a part of the brain that helps rev up the immune system, new data show.
Patience is a virtue of these crafty, resilient little reproductive cells. Some bacterial spores have grown after lying dormant for a millennium.
