Gravitational waves shake the very fabric of the universe when black holes collide. Today we measure these events and use them to understand the ...

Robert Ray, who worked on Ken Starr’s investigation of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, told me, “Everyone’s in favor of the idea of an outside prosecutor, in theory — until one gets pointed at them.” As ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole.

Neuroaesthetics is a relatively young field of research, aiming primarily to explain the phenomena that affect the perception ...

Hidden treasures of the culinary world often lurk in the most unexpected locations, and the Wooden Angel in Beaver, Pennsylvania, proves this delectable theory with every succulent lobster tail that ...

From early experiments with lanterns to Einstein’s revelations about space and time, the speed of light has proven to be far ...

From autocrats chasing immortality to fading institutions, twilight feels like collapse. But the world's greatest opera shows ...

Stephen Hawking's and Albert Einstein’s predictions have finally been proved right after a 'black hole collision'. In January this year, astronomers spotted two black holes colliding into one another ...

Is time something that flows — or just an illusion? Exploring space-time as either a fixed “block universe” or a dynamic fabric reveals deeper mysteries about existence, change, and the very nature of ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

Some critics have accused Karl Marx of forcing world history into a narrow framework that presented European capitalism as a universal development model. A closer look at Marx’s late writings show how ...

Since that day, LIGO — composed of two highly sensitive laser interferometers located in Hanford, Washington and Livingston, ...