If you have real problems hopping on to a Wifi network while you’re out and about, your worries are over. You can now slip this Wifi dowsing rod into your pocket to help you find those elusive Wifi ...

When the parents of Sally Le Page, a British evolutionary biologist, tried to get help from their local water company with installing a new pipe, they were greeted with a bizarre sight. "My parents ...

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. student and science ...

The practice of using a branched wooden stick (a dowsing rod) to locate underground water or buried minerals is known as dowsing or divining. In some areas of the United States, this practice may be ...

Divining rods are being used to find important infrastructure in Wellington on the ratepayer-funded clock. Downer Group said the practice was one tool used to find underground water supplies while on ...

Last week, we posted a small selection of snake-oil gadgets. It's resulted in a monster comments thread. One particularly strong contingent was that defending dowsing rods, the final item in the ...