It depends on the properties of water, the definition of wetness, and whether you can trust when your senses inform you if something is wet or not.

BIG QUESTIONS
Many nursery rhymes are attributed to Mother Goose. But was Mother Goose even a real person?
The phrase used to describe a has-been reality star or trend originated on the battlefield.
Here's how to identify red and gray foxes, plus some helpful information about where the foxes live and what they eat.
Mercury retrograde will make the planet appear to move backwards. No, that doesn’t mean your electronics or your relationships will fail.
The four-letter words that still have the power to offend took a circuitous route out of our mouths and into our language.
Marijuana really does give you the munchies—here's the science behind why.
Catching a kid picking their nose isn’t too unusual, but have you ever wondered what makes them want to actually eat their boogers? Discover more about the science behind mucophagy and its enduring appeal to youngsters.
To be certified as organic, farmers can’t use prohibited synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, or hormones for three full years before applying. Further, any animals they have must be raised on organic foods.
Adorable Arctic foxes will eat anything they can catch on the snowy tundra.
You may not have given it much thought in the past, but you've most definitely seen a single shoe hanging around the side of the road. How did it get there?
‘Take it with a grain of salt’ all (probably) started with Pliny the Elder, but he was talking about literal poison.
Michigan maintains one of the most successful bottle return programs in America.
The abbreviations are widely understood as “morning” and “afternoon,” but what do the Latin translations actually mean?
When you spritz some Febreze into the air, it actually uses compounds called cyclodextrins to trap those odor-causing molecules.
People are still torn over the belief that the ninth president died of pneumonia after not wearing a coat to his inauguration.
Cats love to lurk around tubs like feline voyeurs. What causes this behavior?
Humans will gaze in awe at the sun during the Great North American total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, but for your pets, it will be just a normal day.
The bagpipe is a tradition at first responder services. How did that happen?