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A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate why matter prevails over antimatter. This knot hypothesis, originally ...

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Dark energy, one of the most mysterious concepts in astronomy, has baffled the world's greatest minds for decades. Dark energy is a placeholder term scientists use to refer to whatever is causing the ...

Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science. And over the last decade, a fledgling community of “consciousness ...

Einstein’s gravity-explaining theory of general relativity may not tell the complete story of how galaxies and black holes formed throughout the universe. New supercomputer simulations implementing ...

Ethnobotanist and psychedelics advocate, Terence McKenna, wrote a book called Food of the Gods, which is an exploration of humans’ symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals—now and in ...

As humans continue to search for life in space, some experts speculate the so-called Great Filter theory lies behind why nobody is responding to our call. Civilisations likely destroy themselves ...