Trains move through the world's subway stations in a consistent pattern: arriving, stopping, and moving to the next stop—and ...

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Vedantam, a veteran science reporter, joins WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn to explore how unseen mental forces shape our choices, and why the show continues to resonate with listeners.

AI’s perfect emptiness isn’t mystical or Zen-like at all. It's just engineering. But that very precision is forcing us to ...

Dr. Lipov, a physician and researcher known for pioneering the use of stellate ganglion block (SGB) to address the ...

"Mischief night," "cabbage night," "goosey night," or "devil’s eve": Why are there so many words for the eve of Halloween—and ...

The wedge is a Southeast U.S. weather pattern where cold air becomes trapped against the Appalachians, creating chilly, ...

The word 'aberration,' meaning a departure from the ordinary, highlights life's deviations. Originating from Latin for 'to ...

Steven Adler's analysis of one million words exchanged during an AI “psychosis” episode shows how ChatGPT convinced a user that he held the fate of the world in his hands.

Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music.

Berninger patted himself down, dug a hand into seat pockets and any bag he could find. No notebook. Resorting to his cell ...

A new optical illusion challenges you to find the word 'FIGHT' hidden within a sea of 'FEAR' in just five seconds. This test measures visual perception and attention to detail, with pattern ...