Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass and everything from planetary motion to human memory seems to unfold along a single, irreversible direction. We are born and ...

Water is everywhere, from the snowpack in the mountains to the tap in our kitchens. But while we often think about rainfall ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

Science journalism is reporting on the symptoms of a disease whose origins lie in an economic model that’s at odds with the ...

"These results from the Dark Energy Survey shine new light on our understanding of the universe and its expansion." ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

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Innovation flourishes not because people collaborate more broadly but because the right people fall into productive orbit ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

Astronomers found evidence that dark matter and neutrinos may interact, hinting at a "fundamental breakthrough" that ...

Kaia Ra, author, oracle and spiritual teacher, has become an influential voice in conversations linking spirituality with ...

When a student first learns how a simple equation can explain the motion of planets or the behaviour of light, it sparks more than academic interest–it awakens a lifelong curiosity about how the ...