Darth Vader never said, “Luke I am your father.” So why do we all think he did? Here’s the science behind this strange phenomenon—and how AI is poised to send it into overdrive. Cape Town street art ...

Lake effect snow. It's a part of what makes western New York winters feel like a wintry wonderland that requires daily shoveling. Utica, along with Rochester, Buffalo and other communities along the ...

Apparently any place looks better if you just say it’s Japan. The idea being that the “Japan effect” is so strong, just the location tag can filter how we perceive an ordinary street or an average ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its ...

After a weekend that had the first snowfall for much of Wisconsin, parts of Racine and Kenosha counties along Lake Michigan measured more than a foot of snow Nov. 10. It's a drastic difference from ...

The studio says everything it's put out for 'Mass Effect 5' thus far will lead to what awaits the next chapter in its sci-fi saga. Reading time 2 minutes Every November 7 is N7 Day, a celebration of ...

I'm a sucker for epic sagas and good sci-fi, and in the lead-up to this year's N7 Day, I realized we don't see that combination very often in video games anymore. Oh sure, we've got games inspired by ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

While a larger parent storm system is typically required to produce heavy rain or snow events, lake effect snow is unique. All you need to produce some of the largest snow events on record is cold ...

Meditation is widely praised for its mental health benefits, but new research shows that it can also produce unexpected side effects for some people—from anxiety and dissociation to functional ...

Editor's note: Read the latest information on the Atlantic Hurricane forecast for Thursday, Sept. 25. The dance between developing storms in the Atlantic could soon evolve into one of meteorology's ...