The same strange ingredient that might stitch together spacetime could also be humming inside your head. Physicists and neuroscientists are increasingly flirting with the idea that the universe and ...

A supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US has just pulled off the largest astrophysical simulation of the Universe accomplished to date. In November 2024, physicists used 9,000 ...

What is the relation between the mind (thoughts, perceptions, sensations, emotions) and the physical body? The traditional answer, assumed by all religions that believe in an afterlife, is dualism: ...

I’ve always loved looking up at the night sky. Even though I didn’t pursue science in college, the outer world has never stopped fascinating me, because that endless stretch above us makes everything ...

I’m by no means a scientist (let’s be real—I’m far from it). But an introductory astronomy class in college did spark my curiosity, and raise some questions, about the marvels of the sprawling ...

In a controversial 2025 paper, a researcher proposed a theory that consciousness may give rise to matter—not the other way ...