But they subscribed to a general-interest newspaper, so they happened upon its books coverage occasionally—and, sometimes, ...

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

In 1930, a young physicist named Carl D. Anderson was tasked by his mentor with measuring the energies of cosmic ...

It was a dream weekend in DFW for long-suffering Texas Tech football fans. The Red Raiders' dominant season rolled on with a 34-7 victory over Brigham Young in the Big 12 championship game. First Big ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Salvation Army Austin is looking for volunteers this week to sort thousands of gifts for its annual Angel Tree program. Each year, low-income families provide a wish list to the ...

Despite the possibility of a government shutdown next week, the Education Department is slated to begin the complicated endeavor of determining how to carry out the sweeping higher ed changes in ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

In a bid to overcome shortcomings in scientific computing, Chinese scientists have unveiled a new approach to sorting data that promises both higher speed and lower energy consumption. The system ...

WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security is ending its controversial Quiet Skies surveillance program for airline travelers, saying June 5 that since its existence, it has "failed to stop a ...