Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

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TV shows are not always filmed in the actual locations where they take place, but "Breaking Bad," which is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was actually filmed mostly in Albuquerque. Of course, filming ...

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Steven Spielberg’s new film Disclosure Day imagines the moment 8 billion humans find out that we are not alone in the universe. The movie, which opens in US theaters on June 12, is a fictional account ...

As the Group of Seven meets in Évian, France, beginning June 15, French President Emmanuel Macron has pushed to bring about a broad recognition that rising trade imbalances are a global economic ...

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German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...