Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

Science fiction is everywhere in our 21st century culture, from superheroes to spaceships. But there was a time it was an odd ...

The rate of smoking cigarettes has steadily declined since the 1960s – when Congress required warnings on cigarette boxes.

We’ve all faced the feeling at some point. When the afternoon slump hits, your focus drifts and your eyelids start to drop; it’s tiring just to stay awake and you can’t fully refocus no matter how ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...