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Oddities in medicine is the topic of the next Omaha Science Café. The featured speaker is Dr. Lydia Kang, a Nebraska Medicine physician and author. Kang…

As the cuts made under the sequester continue, scientists worry that U.S. research will fall behind. Budget cuts already are delaying plans for equipment upgrades and preventing new research — and a new generation of researchers — from getting underway.

2018 saw a string of more precise — and dire — assessments that a warming climate is affecting the weather. That didn't keep President Trump and others from questioning those scientific conclusions.

Most people's after-midnight mishaps are nothing compared with what David K. Randall describes in his new book. From people committing murder while supposedly sleepwalking, to what sleep was like in medieval times, Dreamland provides a lively overview of the world's most popular nocturnal pastime.

Former IT consultant Graeme Simsion's debut novel, The Rosie Project, is a scientific romp about a probably-Asperger's-affected genetics professor who falls in love with a free-spirited woman during a search for her biological father. Reviewer Heller McAlpin says it's an "utterly winning screwball comedy."

For the 5th year, the Green Omaha Coalition is offering its Green Home Tour.The Coalition’s goal is to showcase innovations and strategies residents have…

Puerto Rico's unstable electric grid affects every sector of society, including the island's rich cultural scene. An outage abruptly ended an emerging pianist's recent concert, touching a nerve.

When Bill Nye said he would attend the speech alongside Rep. Jim Bridenstine, the Trump administration's nominee for NASA administrator, it didn't sit well with some scientists.

Fewer than 10 percent of America's high schools offer computer science classes. Educators say just adding courses isn't enough — it will take teachers who inspire.

The Justice Department said in a court filing it wants to see the former Trump adviser sentenced to six months in prison for not complying with the Jan. 6 committee's investigation.