A "smart" white cane that uses way-finding approaches from robotics and self-driving vehicles could benefit people who are blind or visually impaired.

New research with mice clarifies how the brain creates new social memories, a process that involves the neurotransmitter serotonin.

When jazz musicians imagine improvising, it elicits the same brain changes as when they actually sing, a new study shows.

Sedentary tendencies may be robbing aging humans of a key benefit of exercise: the myriad repair mechanisms that heal the body from the minor dings and tears of hunter-gatherer and farming lifestyles.

Physics educational outreach programs are positive for both audiences and the students who present them, a new study shows.

The world's most precise measurement of the neutron's lifetime has an uncertainty of less than one-tenth of a percent.

Two physicists propose a new, bolder approach to planetary defense called PI, or "Pulverize It."

A certain type of artificial intelligence agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training.