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

Atomic nuclei exhibit multiple energy scales simultaneously—ranging from hundreds down to fractions of a megaelectronvolt. A new study demonstrates that these drastically different scales can be ...

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 ...

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 ...

So they explained the aircraft sightings by saying they were "natural phenomena" and "high-altitude ... exactly why it's called Area 51, but one theory suggests it came from its proximity to ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Combining concepts from statistical physics with machine learning, researchers at the University of Bayreuth have shown that ...

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 ...

Conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination or ... but also develop an approach for analyzing and understanding phenomena behind it: how factors like history, culture and institutions of ...