Above: Massive wildfires torched tinder-dry California in August 2018, after the state experienced its hottest month on record in July. The record heat was caused by an unusually extreme jet stream ...

A new study has found high frequency propagating activity patterns in the motor cortex that contain details of upcoming movement -- information that could lead to the development of better ...

Universal motion: researchers have found that patterns of travel in different cities are surprisingly universal. (Courtesy: iStock_Nikada) Patterns describing how far and how frequently people travel ...

Back in 1935, the American linguist George Zipf made a remarkable discovery. Zipf was curious about the relationship between common words and less common ones. So he counted how often words occur in ...