Optical illusions are fascinating puzzles that are designed to trick our brains into seeing something that isn’t quite what it appears to be. These puzzles reveal how complex and powerful our minds ...

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

Zero is definitively an even number, mathematicians confirm. The formal definition states an even number is any whole number divisible by two with no remainder, a rule zero perfectly satisfies (0 = 2 ...

Abstract: Spatial spectrum direction finding is a kind of radio signal direction finding technology which combines multi-element antenna and multi-channel signal processing. The spatial spectrum ...

A new reward is being offered for information to help find the shooter who killed a 14-year-old boy Friday night in the Loop, in the first of two shootings downtown, which left one teen dead and eight ...

In Hans Christian Andersen's folktale, The Emperor's New Clothes, when a child cries out that the emperor is naked, he isn't revealing a secret. Everyone already knows it. What changes in that instant ...

FILE - A rack with cards bettors can use to choose their own numbers to purchase lottery tickets for the Saturday Oct. 29, drawing of the Powerball lottery, are seen on a counter at a market in ...

Farmed oysters in the Mediterranean Sea contain troubling numbers of microplastics, with specimens from industrialized coastal regions showing double the contamination of those from less developed ...

An object from another solar system is hurtling our way. It is only the third interstellar object ever spotted in our Solar System, although many others have probably passed unnoticed. The object ...