Source: Wikimedia Commons/Christof Bernhard Francke/Public Domain. Why does the world exist? Or to put it another way, why is there something rather than nothing? This ultimate mystery in philosophy ...

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Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong? Reading time 8 minutes A huge chunk of the universe is missing. It’s ...

The Saudi-funded league is reportedly on the verge of losing its funding and possibly shutting down. Bob Harig explores what LIV now faces and answers key questions about its future. Widespread ...

Scientists still don’t know how consciousness emerges from the brain. New ideas suggest it may not emerge at all, but instead be a basic feature of reality. Is consciousness produced by the brain, or ...

I grew up in a faithful Methodist household in deep-red Texas during the George W. Bush years, when the political sway of evangelicals was at its zenith. At the same time, evangelists of a robust ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Universal History Archive / Getty. The problem with horses—one of the problems with horses, I say as a former horse girl—is that they are as stubborn as mules.

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new research showing how two powerful symmetries could have created stable ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

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