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 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 ...

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 ...

Is it really possible that the unseen can affect what is seen? Can the invisible aspects of our lives impact the visible aspects, can the spiritual affect the physical, in a cause and effect type of ...

The end of one year and the beginning of another offers the occasion to reflect on what has changed and what remains the same. The good news is that the law of cause and effect remains in place. The ...

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 ...

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.

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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 ...