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 ...

A recent newspaper essay on the joys of walking around Paris, even in the rain, recounted how the author ended up paying more than $200 for an umbrella. The writer harbored no regrets for what was a ...

A deeply rooted concept in everyday life is causality; the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future. Physicists have ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here’s a curious question: Do certain physical events have no cause, or is there a reason behind every action? This conundrum lies at the heart of one of the strangest areas of foundational science.

We sometimes associate cause and effect without knowing the real link, or as an academic buzz phrase has it, “correlation does not equal causation.” A quick search provides a humorous example. Did you ...

A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at Poland's Adam Mickiewicz University has found no evidence that wind turbine noise causes mental harm, putting to rest a persistent and unsubstantiated ...

Attorney Andrew Cohen analyzes legal issues for CBS News and CBSNews.com. The legal war on terror has so many fronts that it's often difficult to remember how one ...

The current financial crisis is not–as many have said–a crisis of capitalism. It is in fact the opposite: a demonstration that well-intentioned government intervention in the private economy can have ...