Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- On Thursday, a Harris County jury awarded $118 million in damages to seven victims of the Watson Grinding explosion. The explosion at the Watson Grinding plant on Gessner near ...

The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking tool called Effort.jl that lets them simulate the structure of the universe using just a laptop. The team created a system that dramatically speeds up how ...

If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...

Gender and Society, Vol. 24, No. 3 (June 2010), pp. 355-377 (23 pages) In this article, the author explores the gendered dynamics of "grinding," sexualized dancing common at college parties. Drawing ...

In 1969, a now-iconic commercial first popped the question, “How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” This deceptively simple line in a 30-second script managed ...

Democrats across the country have been pushing back on President Trump’s D.C. crime crackdown, citing statistics purportedly showing that crime in the nation’s capital is down or even at historic lows ...

Bruxism is a multifactorial condition, often caused by a combination of stress, anxiety, sleep disorders, and other physiological factors. Diagnosis involves a combination of clinical exams, patient ...

AI-powered coding tools like Cursor, Replit, Claude Code, and Lovable are helping developers write many lines of code every day to ship products faster. However, app makers still have to rely on ...

When you think of lowering your grocery bill with homegrown food, wheat probably isn’t the first thing that pops into your mind. Tomatoes, lettuce, and perhaps a flock of backyard chickens often make ...