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Despite all that we’ve learned about the Universe, there remain unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions. Could “God” be the answer?

It might have been Einstein’s greatest blunder, but it’s our leading theory today. One of the most mysterious components in the entire Universe is dark energy, which — if we’re being honest with […]

After my father died, my journey of rediscovery began with the Czech language.

Serving as the inspiration for the modern horror classic “The Blair Witch Project,” what does our fascination with this unsolvable mystery tell us about our modern psyche?

We should not romanticize ancient Egyptian culture.

We know it couldn’t have began from a singularity. So how small could it have been at the absolute minimum?

The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.

Yes, the Universe is expanding, but you might wonder, “How fast is it expanding?”

Remembering Frank Drake, who transformed the search for alien life & extraterrestrial intelligence into a full-fledged scientific endeavor.

Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]

The controversy over the universe’s expansion rate continues with a new, faster estimate.

We used to think the Big Bang meant the universe began from a singularity. Nearly 100 years later, we’re not so sure.

Migrating our planet to a safer orbit might be the only way to preserve Earth after all the ice melts.

With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]

No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.

The Kalam cosmological argument asserts that everything that exists has a cause, and what caused the Universe? It’s got to be God.

The laws of physics aren’t changing. The Earth is. When it comes to any physical science, we know that the fundamental rules governing how the Universe works remain constant with time. […]

A recent study illuminated surprising differences in how men and women seek help when struggling with relationships.

Popular diets view health as a calorie-crunching equation while excluding a critical variable: mental wellness.

Your breathing rhythm influences a wide range of behaviors, cognition, and emotion.

Named M51-ULS-1b, it’s certainly a curious astronomical event. But the evidence is far too weak to conclude “planet.”

Virtual reality continues to blur the line between the physical and the digital, and it will change our lives forever.

It’s been precisely 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang occurred. Here’s how we know.

Engineered immune cells have prevented Type 1 diabetes in mice.

Wander into the deep recesses of the mind and never return the same with these existentialist books.

The Chegg cheating scandal reveals a critical need to rethink the student experience in post-COVID education.

A single lifetime is more than enough to take you to the limits of the Universe. Right now, there are only three things limiting how far our spacecrafts can take […]

For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened. 

If we were born trillions of years in the future, could we even figure out our cosmic history?

A new study explains how a chaotic region just outside a black hole’s event horizon might provide a virtually endless supply of energy.