No one can control the weather, but certain clouds can be deliberately triggered to release rain or snow. The process, known as cloud seeding, typically involves dispersing small silver iodide ...

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Oxford, has achieved a world-first by creating plasma ...

As more and more exoplanets are discovered throughout the galaxy, scientists find some that defy explanation—at least for ...

In various contexts, for practical, philosophical, and logical reasons, there is a default assumption. In the criminal justice system, for example, someone is presumed innocent until proven guilty. T ...

This ghost story pops up in different forms all over the world, but science has an explanation just in time for Halloween ...

Researchers studied restaurant servers to figure out why people tip more or less, including when "gift" chocolate is left and personal connections.

Cox went on to explain that 'What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell', a 1944 book by Erwin Schrödinger ...

Tests on olivine hint that water-rich exoplanets could generate H2O internally, possibly explaining ocean worlds and even some of Earth’s early water.

In the end, though, the research finds that current AI models are “highly unreliable” at describing their own inner workings and that “failures of introspection remain the norm.” Anthropic’s new ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, ...

Chimpanzees show the capacity to weigh clues, track options, and change their minds when better evidence shows up.

Many people don’t realize that STEM is all around us in our daily lives. This is one of the many reasons why WonderWorks ...