There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Few things in the universe are as perplexing as dark matter — the invisible and exotic “stuff” that is thought to make up ...

“If this is correct, to the extent of my knowledge, it would mark the first time humanity has ‘seen’ dark matter. And it ...

WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, American car companies will soon be required to test vehicle safety using dummies that are representative of women. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Across ancient civilizations and Indigenous communities, humans have developed diverse traditions, practices and rituals to access the imaginative and spiritual dimension of mythopoetics—a realm ...

When she was a child, Priscilla Dobler Dzul wanted to be an Egyptologist. Obsessed by ancient culture, she devoured Egyptian mythology and even practiced mummification under the tutelage of her ...

IT does not fall within our scope to attempt a detailed or technical examination of the volume of Gifford Lectures in which Prof. A. N. Whitehead has expounded at greater length than elsewhere his ...

An astrophysicist and a neurosurgeon walked into a room. It may sound like the beginning of a bad joke, but what a pair of Italian researchers came up with is a truly galaxy brain take: The structures ...

But Why is a show led by kids. They ask the questions and we find the answers. It’s a big interesting world out there. On But Why, we tackle topics large and small, about nature, words, even the end ...