Seeing faces in objects—known as face pareidolia—triggers a powerful attentional response, according to a new study.

"God does not play dice." This famous remark by Albert Einstein critiqued the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics.

A notebook featuring Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man. Dilara Irem. Like the artist, the scientist is a lover of nature.

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A study from EPFL reveals why humans excel at recognizing objects from fragments while AI struggles, highlighting the ...

Researchers at the University of Osaka have developed new mathematical models that offer new insights into the behavior of ...

The Langlands programme has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up ...

Researchers have found the first new type of magnet in nearly a century. Now, these strange "altermagnets" could help us ...

While astronomers expect many supernova remnants remain to be discovered, the fact that Teleios was spotted at all “is pure luck,” Filipović says. Had it been located closer to the galactic plane, ...

The Maholova Club And The Search For A Dead Body is about a boy shaped like a tomb who thinks he is a tomb and might actually ...

Researchers have cracked a fundamental optical challenge: how to control both angle and wavelength of light independently—a ...