In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

A radical new theory regarding the origin of the universe suggests that gravitational waves, tiny ripples in spacetime first predicted by Albert Einstein back in 1915, could have given rise to cosmic ...

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Through the study of the natural and physical world by using observation, experimentation, and testable explanations, we can ...

Early scientific theories—such as those explaining basic phenomena like gravity, burning, and the movement of molecules in water—centered on presumed inherent properties rather than external factors, ...

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925, quantum mechanics, the scientific theory that describes the unintuitive rules of physics ...

"If science is careful scepticism writ large, shouldn’t a scientific cast of mind require one to be sceptical of science itself?" inquires Economist editor Anthony Gottlieb in an essay for More ...

Theories abound, but neuroscientists still haven’t coalesced around one explanation, largely because it’s such a hard question to probe with the scientific method. Unlike other phenomena studied by ...

Most people know that anything defined as a theory contains an essential caveat. This is despite the fact that they’re widely assumed to be true. Sometimes, it’s something fairly obviously true that’s ...

A decade ago astrophysicists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), operated by the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...