Updated 7 a.m. Wednesday Most of the major water companies in the United Kingdom use dowsing rods — a folk magic practice discredited by science — to find underwater pipes, according to an Oxford Ph.D ...

Wouldn't it theoretically work worse than chance? At least by chance, you have you wouldn't theoretically have any biases leading you towards something. Dowsing rods require the user's subconscious ...

A house a couple doors down was recently sold, and for whatever reason the underground utility folks were called and marked up the area with the water/gas/electrical lines, etc. As I was watching from ...

Thames Water and Severn Trent Water are still use dowsing rods to detect leaks despite scientific studies showing that the method is ineffective. A 2017 investigation found that 10 out of 12 water ...

Users: 10 regional water and sewer utilities in Great Britain What were they thinking? When British scientist Sally LePage’s parents told her that a technician from the local water company used ...

Josh is a staff writer covering Europe, including politics, policy, immigration and more. Americans are always being told that their view of Britain is wrong. The U.K. is, we hear, not a quaint little ...

George Kachadorian's non-fiction debut film, "Divining Mom," connects with auds in a different way than was originally envisioned. Conceived as a look at dowsing, the ancient practice of using ...