MacDougall hoped to discover whether a soul had mass with his macabre experiment, and if so, how much. His tests with ...

The real risk isn't in running robust tests; it’s in wasting money or cutting high-performing channels based on misleading ...

Physicist Albert Einstein famously posited that if he only had an hour to crack a daunting problem, he'd devote 55 minutes to understanding it and only five minutes to crafting a solution. Einstein ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

Neuroscientists have investigated whether playing violent video games leads to a reduction in human empathy. To do this, they had adult test subjects play a violent video game repeatedly over the ...

When talking about the life of astronauts, people often think of endless stars and magnificent cosmic views. However, what is ...

A modified version of the classic mirror test suggested that roosters recognize their reflections. By Darren Incorvaia The idea of a chicken running around with its head cut off, inspired by a ...

The 2021 film "My Octopus Teacher" swept the world with its touching story of a South African man who befriends a wild octopus while free diving in a kelp forest. Millions of filmgoers were charmed ...

It’s the theme of many a torch song or country western ballad: Booze dulls the hurt. But while songs like “One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)” and “There’s a Tear in My Beer” are about easing ...