Artificial Intelligence Is Moving From Physics Assistant to Experimental Partner For centuries, discovering a new law of physics meant some combination of human intuition, mathematical insight, painstaking experimentation and, occasionally, extraordinary luck. That formula is beginning to change. Artificial intelligence systems are now being...

Scientists Are Revisiting a Once-Controversial Idea: Do Humans Possess a Hidden Sense of Direction Linked to Earth's Magnetic Field? A hiker lost in dense forest unexpectedly chooses the correct path back to camp. A sailor awakens from sleep, glances at the horizon, and...

Few phenomena in forensic history provoke as much unease as spontaneous human combustion — the unsettling idea that a living person can burst into flames from within, leaving behind little more than a pile of ash and a pair of unburned...

Investigating the Mysterious Miyake Events Hidden in Ancient Tree Rings In the summer of AD 774, people across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas went about their daily lives completely unaware that something extraordinary may have just happened above their heads. There were...

New geochemical research is reshaping our understanding of Earth’s atmosphere, revealing that one of the planet’s most essential elements may have vanished from the sky and become hidden deep within the Earth itself. For decades, scientists believed they had a fairly straightforward...

Search-and-Rescue Experts Say Many “Impossible” Recoveries May Reveal More About Human Survival Than the Supernatural On a cold morning in a remote wilderness area, search teams spent hours combing dense forests, steep ravines, and rocky slopes for a missing child. Rescue coordinators...