One morning in 2009, Jacqueline Tabler woke up with the solution to a laboratory problem that had been plaguing her for months. She got out of bed, grabbed her notebook, and started sketching out an ...

Discover a collection of clever and easy DIY projects and science experiments that you can try at home using everyday materials. This video features homemade matchstick darts, an impressive bubble ...

Researchers Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher host a unique podcast where they explore the creative process of generating ideas for scientific research. Yanai: There's some kind of stigma, bias, or ...

Over the last few decades, research has grown ever more international. Big projects, like major astronomical observatories, genome sequencing, and particle physics, are all based on large teams of ...

Northumberland students win top award in national STEM competition ...

This six-part Working Scientist podcast series explores synergies between the scientific process, crafting and art. It features researchers whose hobbies and interests nurture their creativity in the ...

Brandon Ogbunu is a computational biologist whose research investigates complex problems in epidemiology, genetics, and evolution; an associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary ...

The old metaphor of creativity being sparked makes it sound like there’s a creativity center in the brain that’s just waiting to kick things off. But brain scans of jazz improvisers point to a much ...

What if creativity wasn’t the enigmatic, unpredictable spark we’ve long romanticized, but instead followed a set of underlying principles, almost like a formula? Imagine if the brilliance of a Picasso ...