VALPARAISO —Staff and students of Valparaiso University’s Neils Science Center put a special spin on Halloween by treating families and kids to a Haunted Science Lab Saturday evening.

This week, the Hidden Brain podcast explores the science of fear — traveling to a haunted house curated by a scientist to investigate what scares us, and why some people enjoy feeling fear.

We explored the real Hawkins Lab in Georgia, the same abandoned building used in Stranger Things. Inside, we discovered brain ...

Before your kids head out for some trick-or-treating next week, they may want to head to the Maryland Science Center because an event called Spooky Science is geared toward all things that are creepy.

The reasons for doing science in the dead of night are usually practical. But that doesn't mean it's easy on researchers who pull the graveyard shift.