Last evening and today I received a number of email messages and queries about an essay called "Wolves understand cause and effect better than dogs" that was published in ScienceDaily. There also is a ...

Here’s a troubling fact. A self-driving car hurtling along the highway and weaving through traffic has less understanding of what might cause an accident than a child who’s just learning to walk. A ...

A new method for determining causality gives scientists a more holistic view of the causal role that contributing factors play within just about any system. Cause and effect. We understand this ...

You stay up well into the early hours playing computer games. The next day you are very tired and you fall asleep during the maths test. You fail the test and get punished as well. That's a rather sad ...

Natural little scientists, human babies love letting go of things and watching them fall. Baby's first experiment teaches them about more than the force of gravity. It establishes the concept of ...

Compared with people who have sex just once a year, those who make love weekly or more suffer only half the risk of dying from all causes. Half. That’s what researchers from the U.S., England, and ...