We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your ...

Anyone can do a simple experiment. Navigate to a search engine that offers suggested completions for what you type, and start typing “scientists believe.” When I did it, I got suggestions about the ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

Triptych conceptual photo collage with a masked researcher holding a vial; a glass pipette dripping into a sample tube; and two researchers at a lab bench with petri dishes and an Erlenmeyer flask. We ...

The great sci-fi writer Arthur Clarke once wrote, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and he was largely right. For example, can you accurately describe how your ...

Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed study by a certain “Mawson” that had come out ...