Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

As best the origins of Earth are understood, we're all just a bunch of stardust, and new observations from the JWST lend credence to that theory.

A mix of technology and politics has given an unprecedented boost to once-fringe ideas—but they are pretty much the same ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...

A year after the RCMP told the fifth estate “some level of success” was coming in a string of killings in a small B.C town, ...

They are each built on one of three paradigms that has dominated international relations theory since World War II: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Realists see politics as rooted in anarchy, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with psychologist Coltan Scrivner about his book Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away.

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

The setup is simple. One partner points out a bird to the other — or in a common variation, recounts a fake bird encounter from earlier in the day — and awaits a response. A partner who responds with ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

TCU communication professor Andrew Ledbetter analyzed Taylor Swift’s lyrics to uncover surprising connections between her ...