Brain Food

Literary and cinematic history is full of characters who have some type of disability...from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, to Rain Man, to Marlee Matlin's…

Space missions are revealing more and more evidence of watery worlds in surprising places. Nadine Barlow is a physics and astronomy professor at Northern…

It would be ideal if anthropology students had access to the world's oldest artifacts for their studies. But many of those objects are locked away in…

Rollie-polies, book lice and bugs called springtails are among the 10 newly discovered insects that live only on the remote Easter Island in the Pacific…

A fungus that’s been around for more than 400 million years is showing up in the roots of trees and grasses all over the world and helping plants grow. In…

Spirits call out on the wind, and chains scrape the streets at night, or so go the ghost stories of Easter Island. Northern Arizona University…

It's only been a few weeks since scientists confirmed there is indeed water on Mars. But they have yet to determine if life exists in the briny water or…

The American Southwest is one of the fastest changing climates in North America. And some scientists fear many plants, and the organisms that depend on…

Information about Pluto continues to beam back to Earth from the New Horizons space probe. And scientists are finding the data perplexing,…

Tree climbing scientists are going to great heights to find pine genes with the perfect fit for the future.Hillary Cooper is a biologist at Northern…