A new experimental study has found that fostering critical thinking can be an effective method to reduce people's tendency to ...

Even natural phenomena like the weather was not spared ... Still, for as much as conspiracy theories and their proponents may have helped define this past year, so have attempts to neutralize ...

theories about a nonmaterial or hidden reality beyond the mundane, from monsters to psychic powers. Some of these ideas were tied to older religious notions of the sacred or strange but not divine ...

New year, new conspiracy theories. Parts of the US have been blanketed by a “mysterious” fog, sparking concern from locals who claim it has a “chemical” smell and exposure can result in ...

A groundbreaking study by Rice University physicist Kaden Hazzard and former student Zhiyuan Wang has established the ...