Why do the prices at retailers like Costco and Target usually end in .99, but occasionally feature a quirky 7 or 4 for items in the clearance section? Obsessive shopping experts and store employees ...

If vampires, witches, and other beasties exist, would you be comforted to know that a secret underground agency is keeping tabs on them? Or are you freaked out that there are ordinary people walking ...

Jennifer Hammel (left) and Monet Roberts conduct research in senior author Jennifer Munson's Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC. The team studies how chemotherapy drugs affect ...

Understanding how molecules interact with ions is a cornerstone of chemistry, with applications from pollution detection and cleanup to drug delivery. In a series of new studies led by JILA Fellow and ...

For hundreds of years, hundreds of burnt Herculaneum scrolls had been entombed in ash after the 2,000-year-old eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Unearthed in the remains of a villa, it is said to ...

It's easy to focus on the nuances that get lost in translation, but what about the insights that are found? This hour, TED speakers reveal what we gain by adapting and translating information. Guests ...