Fiction about online life tends to mimic its dull repetition. A debut novel doesn’t quite succeed in raising the stakes—but ...

Wendy Wisner is a journalist and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC). She has written about all things pregnancy, maternal/child health, parenting, and general health and ...

Named after the iconic South African leader Nelson Mandela, this curious phenomenon happens when a large group of people remembers something one way, only to discover they’ve got it all wrong. And ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, others spend years searching for an explanation. There is a shirt currently ...

The anticipation ahead of Mass Effect 3 led to plenty of theories about the shape of the trilogy’s endgame, with plenty of guesses about how the war with the Reapers would play out. After the eventual ...

This satellite image, taken on Wednesday, shows two tropical waves that could develop along parallel tracks -- or potentially combine -- in the Atlantic. NASA GOES Satellite After an unseasonably long ...

Behavioral economists note that spending increases when asset values rise, known as the wealth effect. Housing asset increases often trigger a stronger wealth effect than stock market surges.

In science, there has been a concept called the "butterfly effect" for many decades - when a completely random and seemingly insignificant impact as a result of subsequent situations has a key ...

Remember that epic moment from Space Jam (the first one, of course, with Michael Jordan) where Bugs Bunny gives his teammates that very Michael's 'Secret Stuff,' which makes them incredibly strong and ...

Everyone knows that Stanley Kubrick is famous for his obsession with technical and visual precision in his films. Every shot, every camera movement, every edit is planned with almost extreme ...