Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s ...

Also known as selective breeding, artificial selection is the human-guided cousin of evolution by natural selection. Instead ...

A dam Riess was 27 years old when he began the work that earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics, and just 41 when he received ...

Genes don’t cause epidemics. You need an environmental toxin,” Kennedy said in April when announcing his department’s new ...

The GHZ paradox was introduced in 1989. It highlights the mismatch between classical viewpoints and the quantum description ...

It's an evocative idea that has long bedevilled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Can your eyes betray your brain? New research shows that your pupils dilate differently depending on how precise your memory ...

Part of the reason scientists have settled on the Big Bang theory as the best explanation of how the Universe came into being ...

Statistical mechanics is one of the pillars of modern physics. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906) and Josiah Willard Gibbs ...

An unusual collaboration between scientists and psychics could transform the treatment of auditory hallucinations.

Words can injure and inspire. Words can bless or curse. Words can create new moral facts, such as when we make a promise.