Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

On January 19, The New York Times published an article describing the ways that President Trump has pushed the limits of presidential power over the past ...

Explaining consciousness is one of the greatest challenges in science and philosophy, right up with the origin of the universe, the existence of dark matter, and whether there is intelligent life on ...

The accelerating expansion of the universe is usually explained by an invisible force known as dark energy. But a new study suggests this mysterious ingredient may not be necessary after all. Using an ...

When the final episode of Stranger Things finally arrived on Netflix on Jan 1, it appeared to do something the show had managed to avoid for a whole decade: bring matters to a close. There was an ...

For various, typically historical reasons, even the best physicists claim things that sound egregious to modern observers. That doesn’t necessarily mean these ideas are completely useless—if anything, ...