If you ask someone who believes in chemtrails or identifies as a 9/11 truther why they believe conspiracy theories, they'll tell you that they aren't conspiracy theorists at all. Instead, most who ...

Humans are pattern seekers. It’s how we’ve always made sense of the world: Our ancestors wouldn’t have survived if they hadn’t realized that plants tend to flourish after rainfall or that sabertooth ...

At 1:18 pm ET on July 21, 2023, President Joe Biden stepped to the podium in the White House’s Roosevelt Room and announced, “I’m the AI.” The official transcript of the event says that this remark ...

For experimental physicists, the latest measurement of the muon is the best of times. For theorists there's still work to do. Colliding 300 billion muons over four years at the Fermi National ...

A late-summer rise in Covid-19 infections is bringing with it a wave of conspiracy theories. By Stuart A. Thompson As Covid-19 cases have climbed as part of a late-summer uptick, right-wing ...

Sometime in the middle of the pandemic year, and sometime in the middle of a prolonged and compulsive scroll through Instagram, the “truth seekers” came into my life. The term was showing up over and ...

Apple, YouTube and Facebook have pulled the plug on Infowars’ Alex Jones for peddling loathsome lies such as the idea that the Sandy Hook massacre was an elaborate hoax. Twitter has failed to follow ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Most people with more than a passing interest ...

Matthew Patrick, better known as YouTube personality MatPat, has announced his retirement from his flagship channel, The Game Theorists. The move leaves millions of fans wondering what's next for the ...

The number pi (π) appears in the most unlikely places. It can be found in circles, of course—as well as in pendulums, springs and river bends. This everyday number is linked to transcendental ...

MatPat is retiring ... sort of. In a video uploaded earlier today, the 37-year-old YouTuber announced he will host his last video on his Game Theorists YouTube channel on March 9. After that, he will ...