Hypothesis testing is a formal procedure for investigating our ideas about the world using statistics. It is most often used by researchers to test predictions, called hypotheses. The first step in ...

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

All over the world people are ageing more rapidly and succumbing to diseases that typically affected the elderly. But there ...

A new study warns that powerful AI systems similar to GPT-5 can suffer a kind of persistent “brain rot” like humans.

Dr. Steven P. Romberger, Edward J. Smerek Chair of Mathematics, the Sciences, and Technology and associate professor of ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...

Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

Simple physics may explain how the Easter Island statues could "walk" miles with only a handful of people, but the debate over their transport is far from over.