For some people, sleep brings a peculiar kind of wakefulness. Not a dream, but a quiet awareness with no content. This lesser ...

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The researchers, who published their findings in the journal Nature Climate Change, identified the terrain's lower "albedo" ...

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question ...

For centuries, stories about will-o’-the-wisps have captured the popular imagination. Countless tales have been told to ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

It happens to just about everyone. A small item such as a set of keys, a coin, a card, an earring or a pen is knocked off a surface. It's assumed that object has landed on the floor where it can be ...

In his sci-fi film Inception (2010), Christophe Nolan imagined his protagonist slipping into other people’s dreams and even shaping their contents. But what if this story wasn’t so far away from real ...

This month marks the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that COVID-19 was a pandemic. That announcement shuttered school buildings and launched millions of students ...