It feels so obvious that time moves forward that questioning it can seem almost pointless.

In 1697, Newton solved a challenge overnight — but the real breakthrough came from a deeper idea that would outlive them all. From Snell’s Law and the brachistochrone curve to F = ma and quantum ...

Stephen Hawking’s family clarifies that a viral photo showing him with two bikini-clad women was taken with his long-term carers, dismissing any insinuations of misconduct.

A team of physicists led by Jared Fuchs at the University of Alabama in Huntsville has produced a peer-reviewed warp drive solution that works within known physics, using only positive energy and ...

Discover how monetary theory influences economic activity through money supply changes, with insights on central bank ...

The decline of reading and the rise of social media are again transforming what it feels like to be a thinking person.

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

Even Charles Darwin was puzzled by the evolution of the vertebrate eye. New research suggests that it traces back to a ...

What if AI doesn’t control us through force, but through convenience—predicting our thoughts, smoothing decisions, and quietly shaping our behavior without us noticing?