Neutron stars are ultra-dense star remnants made up primarily of nucleons (i.e., protons and neutrons). Over the course of millions of years, these stars progressively cool down, radiating heat into ...

Soon after the James Webb Space Telescope was launched on Christmas Day 2021, it began sending back astonishing images of deep space. Those images have upended many long-held theories about the ...

A Case for the Existence of God at Mosaic Theater is a touching, quietly powerful story of an unlikely friendship and a mighty bond between two fathers striving to secure the futures of their baby ...

Alexander Batthyány writes that “a good scientific theory should predict and explain what is observed. Mr. Pinker’s materialism does neither” (Letters, Nov. 6). Yet a biologically plausible hypothesis ...

EXCLUSIVE: Submarine has boarded The Edge of Existence, a film about one man’s attempt to survive for 60 days on Rockall, which is described as the UK’s most remote and dangerous island. The feature ...

Here's what psychology says about people who apologize to things that can't hear them. We've all been there. You accidentally knock into a chair, and before you can stop yourself, "Sorry!" escapes ...

A FULLY networked carbon capture and storage industry along Australia’s east coast, with Gippsland a key contributor, could boost economic activity by about $66 billion and support an additional ...

The long-beaked echidna had not been documented since the 1960s. Biologists have confirmed the existence of a 200-million-year-old species of egg-laying mammal that has been assumed to be extinct.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by working ...