Flashes of insight trigger activity in the brain’s hippocampus. This cashew-shaped structure is buried deep within the ...

People have always revered the “Eureka!” moment—a sudden rush of clarity when a puzzle clicks into place, a long-sought ...

What the team saw was that solutions that came with an “aha!” moment were remembered much better by participants than those they had worked out more deliberately. The more strongly someone felt that ...

This duo was part of a small band of government and university scientists who had spent more than a decade cracking a complex viral puzzle—and ... up recognition in Science’s 2013 Breakthrough ...

Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

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Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Like many fellow colleagues ... that supported $395 million in economic activity. Experts predict that science funding cuts could result in economic ...