Fewer Americans own homes and many of them are continuing to see values decline. The U.S. Census Bureau reported Tuesday that the nation's homeownership rate fell to 66% in the fourth quarter, continuing a seven-year drop from a fourth-quarter peak of 69.2% in 2004. At the...
After drilling for two decades through more than two miles of antarctic ice, Russian scientists are on the verge of entering a vast, dark lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years. Scientists are enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there but are...
Mind-Reading May Be Reality Soon By linking sounds to patterns of brain activity, scientists may be on the way to helping us hear the thoughts of other people.
By Emily Sohn
Wed Feb 1, 2012 07:09 AM ET
By looking only at maps of electrical activity in the human brain, scientists were able to tell which words a person was...
