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Carrie Berk reveals how she transformed her struggle with anxiety and internet fame by changing her perception and finding her true voice as a writer.

The Multiverse fuels some of the 21st century’s best fiction stories. But its supporting pillars are on extremely stable scientific footing.

The ultimate definition of trauma, explained by leading psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk.

If our Universe were born a little differently, there wouldn’t have been any planets, stars, galaxies, or chemically interesting reactions.

The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in 2023. Here’s the story of its 100th anniversary.

The difference between predictions and observations of the magnetic properties of muons suggests a mystery for the Standard Model.

From forming bound states to normal scattering, many possibilities abound for matter-antimatter interactions. So why do they annihilate?

Today, the deepest depths of intergalactic space aren’t at absolute zero, but at a chill 2.73 K. How does that temperature change over time?

For every proton, there were over a billion others that annihilated away with an antimatter counterpart. So where did all that energy go?

Holograms preserve all of an object’s 3D information, but on a 2D surface. Could the holographic Universe idea lead us to higher dimensions?

We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don’t agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.

Headlines have blared that quasar ticking confirms that time passed more slowly in the early Universe. That’s not how any of this works.

“It is healthy and normal to be afraid of death.”

Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.

Unless you confront your theory with what’s actually out there in the Universe, you’re playing in the sandbox, not engaging in science.

Empty space itself, the quantum vacuum, could be in either a true, stable state or a false, unstable state. Our fate depends on the answer.

Our greatest tool for exploring the world inside atoms and molecules, and specifically electron transitions, just won 2023’s Nobel Prize.

A concept known as “wave-particle duality” famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.

We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.

Most waves need a medium to travel through. But the way that light and gravitational waves travel shows that space can’t be a medium at all.

Traveling back in time is a staple of science fiction movies. But according to Einstein, it’s a physical possibility that’s truly allowed.

There are a wide variety of theoretical studies that call our Standard Model of cosmology into question. Here’s what they really mean.

The concept of ‘relativistic mass’ has been around almost as long as relativity has. But is it a reasonable way to make sense of things?

Since its observation discovery in the 1990s, dark energy has been one of science’s biggest mysteries. Could black holes be the cause?

Almost everyone asserts that the Big Bang was the beginning of everything, followed by inflation. Has everyone gotten the order wrong?

The multiverse is an idea that has gained a lot of traction in popular culture. But what does science have to say about it?

Successful alpha leadership is more about caring and healing than dog-eat-dog supremacy.

The observation that everything we know is made out of matter and not antimatter is one of nature’s greatest puzzles. Will we ever solve it?

For centuries, Newton’s inverse square law of gravity worked beautifully, but no one knew why. Here’s how Einstein finally explained it.

Whenever someone waxes poetic about terraforming alien worlds, it’s worth taking a moment to consider the ethical implications of the proposal.