The world is never really at rest. Even in a vacuum near ultracold temperatures where all classical motion should come to a halt, you'll find quantum fluctuations. In thin, two-dimensional materials, ...

Why do we seek certainty in our lives? Why do we sometimes not want certainty? This post explains how certainty is part of affect, the evaluative common currency of the mind.

There are many types of spacetime within physics, the same way there are infinite dimensions in math. Some spacetimes are ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact ...

Nearly all of the solar system’s planets are about to file across the night sky in a planetary alignment, and it will be ...

For years, cosmologists have argued over a simple question with an awkward answer: How fast is the universe expanding right ...

The total energy of the ball consists of its potential energy (related to position) plus its kinetic energy (related to motion). To zero out both components, you would have to give a precise value to ...

If a large-scale nuclear exchange ever occurred, the United States would face wildly uneven consequences depending on geography, wind patterns, and agricultural capacity. No federal agency publishes ...

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Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave art that we don’t have the technology to date. Columnist Michael Marshall ...

The long road to a World Series begins this week, and plenty of contenders have issues to address before Opening Day. And besides, what begins this week can wind up having a major impact on which ...

At Canuck Place Children’s Hospice, parents are courageous, resilient and fierce. Kerena and Jordan Letcher are no exception. When their son, Heston, was diagnosed as a toddler with Sanfilippo ...