Explore the key moments in the history of quantum theory, from the early ideas of Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg to the discovery of phenomena like superposition and entanglement – and today’s ...

We’ve wondered what powered the Sun for centuries. Early guesses included meteor showers, chemical combustion, and ...

Einstein believed that black holes didn't really exist. But they do: that much we know. We don't know much else about them.

In their new book, Lydia Kang and Nate Pedersen survey flat Earth theory, fake moon landings and other scientific myths and why people believe them.

Asked whether he thinks time is an illusion, Torrengo removes his glasses. Time, he says, is akin to the blurriness of the world seen without spectacles: “an experience of something that elicits a ...

If dark energy is weakening, it stands to reason that eventually gravity will become dominant and the universe will begin to contract. In such a scenario, the universe would collapse back into a ...

During the latter part of the 20th century, string theory was put forward as a unifying theory of physics foundations. String ...

Solvej Balle's newly translated speculative novel, On the Calculation of Volume (parts I and II), examines the numbing effects of time through the old trope of being stuck in a single day. It is an ef ...

One of the major consequences of Einstein's special theory of relativity is that time is not absolute. The passage of time ...

Mahavir’s ancient doctrine of anekantvad (non-absolutism) offers a timeless lens for understanding truth as multifaceted, ...

You may have seen the recent news of dark energy observations that alter our understanding of the cosmos, but where has the ...