For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as ...

A new theoretical framework shows how subtle fluctuations in spacetime could be detected using existing interferometers.

Video assistant referee errors have risen in the first half of the Premier League season. Data collected by BBC Sport taken from the Premier League's Key Match Incidents (KMI) Panel shows mistakes ...

Engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison uncovered a critical flaw in how lunar and Martian rovers are tested on Earth. Simulations revealed that test results have been misleading for decades ...

We look at how experiments might reveal if reality is simulated. The double slit experiment suggests particles behave differently when observed. Evolution based simulations test whether complexity ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

A major outage at internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare knocked parts of the internet offline, disrupting access to X, NJ Transit, ChatGPT and other major platforms ...

Physics and Python stuff. Most of the videos here are either adapted from class lectures or solving physics problems. I really like to use numerical calculations without all the fancy programming ...

Do you know what'll always save you from awkward silences at a work function? Or make you the shining star at any dinner party? A funny, interesting, and slightly niche fun fact. As it turns out, ...

Find all of Teen Vogue's questions and games stories here. We’ve all been there, staring down the silence of a conversation with no clear path. This is where a set of random questions to ask comes in ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Every survey finding published by Pew Research ...

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