Science

Stanford anthropologist and author T.M. Luhrmann discussed new research that says we don't use the same cognitive approaches to faith as we do with facts.
Mercury probe set for crash-landing on April 30
Messenger, the space probe that discovered water on Mercury and has been circling the planet for four years, will take a swan dive in hopes of discovering more.
The importance of failure in science
Failure is essential to science, though it's not very well understood outside of the field. Listen to three people in the field talk about the role of mistakes, setbacks and failures in the scientific process.
Does your dog love you back?
Research shows that when dogs and their people gaze into each other's eyes, all get a boost in their circulating levels of oxytocin.
Christopher Field, director of Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, works on a tiny scale in the field. Instead of describing vast land or seascapes, he focuses on a 5-inch-by-5-inch square of grassland.