Walk, skip or run — people travel at many speeds, but how do our minds tell the difference? Researchers in Norway have detected a subset of neurons in rats that serve as the brain’s speedometer — they ...

Have you ever walked out of a movie theater and said to your companion, "Wow, the science in that film was awesome?" We can each probably name a favorite. (I'm pretty sure for my 13.7 colleague Adam ...

Does our need for speed influence what we see and hear in the media? Short answer yes. And for Science, with a capital S, that may be not such a good thing. “In 1965, two Norwegian social scientists, ...

RICHMOND: A permanent exhibition called "SPEED" opens at the Science Museum of Virginia Saturday, May 21st. The exhibition features over fifty experiences taking you from the super-fast to the world's ...

Ok, so this is probably the nerdiest thing I’ve ever seen anyone do when planning a conference, and after nearly seven years at the University of Cambridge, that’s really saying something. This is all ...

From the days of horse and carriage, speed limit science (speed science) has been used to help establish speed limits on how fast (or slow) people and their vehicles should go. I’ve spent years ...

Without looking at any other story in this issue (Volume 25), take a gander at the image at the top of this page and tell me what that black object is. This story originally appeared in Volume 25 of ...

When I think of the Porsche 911, the mental snapshot that flutters out of my memory is a snow-white car with red and blue stripes sliding vertically through my field of view. It was toward the end of ...