OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla — Officials say help is on the way to combat some of the bumper-to-bumper traffic that clogs the streets of Poinciana, but not for about two years. The Central Florida Expressway ...

Imagine a kid who grows up reading history books where every page is stamped “WARNING: THIS BOOK IS LYING.” You’d expect them to come away skeptical, or at least uncertain. New research on so-called ...

There is so much going on in the news that it can be easy to overlook the fact that the president continues to tell a whole lot of lies. President Donald Trump delivered a dizzying variety of false ...

Every sanctions team I speak to quotes a false-positive rate above 95 per cent as if it were weather. That number is not a property of the matching engine. It is a property of the data fed into it and ...

In Baltimore on Oct. 20, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial intelligence-enhanced surveillance camera falsely ...

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It’s been 20 years since Warren Jeffs, the “prophet” who ran the cult-like polygamist Mormon offshoot the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Short Creek, Utah, was arrested ...

There are lies we find acceptable, depending on the circumstances. We may lie to protect someone, to spare a person’s feelings, to bypass complexity in explaining a difficult incident, or to avoid ...

You have probably encountered the base rate fallacy, and it probably fooled you. Part mathematical paradox and part cognitive bias, this mental oversight has surprisingly forceful things to say about ...

Fruit of the Loom's logo never had a cornucopia and you didn't have pizza for dinner last Friday. By RJ Mackenzie Published Jan 27, 2026 9:01 AM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More ...

I have been playing Dungeons & Dragons for more than 20 years, and in all that time, I have never encountered a monster more original and interesting than the False Hydra. Perhaps the most popular ...