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 ...

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 ...

In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers report the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect, a key thermoelectric phenomenon that has eluded scientists since it was predicted ...

In 1961, MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz was inputting numbers into a weather prediction program. His model was based on a dozen variables, the value of one being .506127. When he ran the model again, ...

As fans wait for a crumb of news on Mass Effect 5, the game's director has suggested at least one small returning feature will remain in the upcoming sequel. Mass Effect 5 was first announced years ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Fans of Wicked certainly felt a stirring when the film finally got to the musical's best-known song, Defying Gravity, but they probably didn't notice ...

Sound effects are some of the most underappreciated aspects of cinema. Indeed, the visual nature of film as a medium often ensures that sound is taken for granted, particularly when it comes to ...

We got a decent amount of official Switch 2 information straight from Nintendo on Thursday morning, ranging from the debut of a new Mario Kart game to the console’s new Joy-Cons seemingly doubling as ...

Taylor Swift has sung "When I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer." Shimmer in gold. Because everything she touches, and everywhere she goes, turns to just that. She's a ...