Some materials behave unexpectedly. They crack differently than expected, or react in ways that are hard to explain. The ...

You know how sometimes a dog looks so perfectly patterned that your brain immediately suspects stickers or a fancy grooming dye job? That’s Geri, a rescue Poodle whose black-and-white coat looks less ...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a notice announcing the 2026 DOT random drug testing rates, and truck drivers will see no changes from the last five years. The 2026 random drug ...

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Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. What happens when imagination meets perception, and ordinary objects come alive? We explore the science of pareidolia. Summary: Our minds are wired to ...