Education

News Hour: Whether or not they aced the subject in high school, human beings are physics masters when it comes to understanding and predicting how objects in the world will behave. A Johns Hopkins University cognitive...

News Hour: An exhaustive search for a ghostly subatomic particle called the sterile neutrino has come up empty, weakening the case for its existence. Scientists from MIT and the University of Wisconsin at Madison, along with...

News Hour: What causes a switch to flip in our brains and wake us up has been discovered Oxford University researchers. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, brings us closer to understanding the mystery of...

News Hour: Three Australian research satellites – two of them built at the University of New South Wales in Sydney – will be launched to the International Space Station this year and deployed into orbit to...

News Hour: From middle-age, the brains of obese individuals display differences in the white matter similar to those in lean individuals ten years their senior, according to new research led by the University of Cambridge. White...

News Hour: Better batteries that charge quickly and last a long time are a brass ring for engineers. But despite decades of research and innovation, a fundamental understanding of exactly how batteries work at the smallest...

News Hour: Generic forms of a biologic drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease and psoriasis appear to be as safe and effective as their brand-name counterparts, a new Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of...

News Hour: UCLA Health hospitals in Westwood and Santa Monica were ranked No. 1 in both Los Angeles and California and No. 5 in the nation in U.S. News and World Report’s annual honor roll. The...

News Hour: A type of targeted therapy that has shown promising results treating advanced melanoma could also be used to help speed up how the skin repairs itself from injury, UCLA researchers have found, providing a...

News Hour: As spring blooms, people in the Northeast and Midwest look forward to spending more time outdoors—which also means plotting ways to avoid the disease carrying black-legged deer tick. This year new research shows that...