Indiana University Northwest began its annual Kids College program Monday, giving middle school students from across Northwest Indiana a chance to explore potential careers through hands-on activities ...

Birds sing the most about an hour before dawn, when the air is at its stillest. Theoretically, this enables sounds to travel farther, making song up to 20 times more effective than if sung at midday.

When Rachel Carson wrote the environmental classic "Silent Spring" in 1962, she warned that unchecked human impacts might create a silent future. Forty years later, biologists uncovered a striking ...

The dancefloor's 100 most essential tracks. The term “dance music” may conjure visions of heaving clubs, packed festival tents and partying with abandon, and certainly these concepts are a substantial ...

Part of what made September’s runways so exciting was all the whimsy. There were bear-shaped bags, nods to childhood, and outlandish styling. There’s no resisting the charm of these miniature bags ...

Six schools in the Salem-Keizer Public Schools will start using Yondr pouches for students' cellphones by the end of January as part of the district's cellphone ban aimed at fostering a more engaging ...

On a scale not seen in decades, many Americans are stuck in homes they would rather leave. By Emily Badger and Francesca Paris Something deeply unusual has happened in the American housing market over ...

The lock-and-dam system through which 175 million tons of freight travels on the upper Mississippi River each year is sorely outdated, and vulnerable to failure that could have a profound effect on ...