“Facts First” is the tagline of a CNN branding campaign which contends that “once facts are established, opinions can be ...

Talk about a bizarre feature of the human body: If you happened to swallow a razor blade, your stomach acid would dissolve it. Acids are ranked on a scale from zero to 14—the lower the pH level, the ...

The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

A lot of science facts sound fake for the simple reason that real life is under no obligation to sound reasonable. Once you get past the classroom version of how the world works, things get much ...

Cognitive psychology and neuroscience studies have found that the exact opposite is often true when it comes to politics: People form opinions based on emotions, such as fear, contempt and anger, ...