The early modern physicist Isaac Newton had presumed an unperceived yet real flow of time. To Newton, time is a dynamic ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

The most confident people tend to be disproportionately wrong.

If you want to learn a tree’s age, you can count their rings. When it comes to humans, scientists have yet to find any ...

While the exact causes of neurodegenerative brain diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia are still largely unknown, ...

Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown, extreme kind of star factory by taking the temperature of a distant galaxy ...

Earth scientists have discovered how continents are slowly peeled from beneath, fueling volcanic activity in an unexpected ...

From dogs and cats to dairy cows and sea turtles, animals around the world are suffering from various cancers, obesity, diabetes, and degenerative joint disease. Understanding the forces driving an in ...

“Time flies,” “time waits for no one,” “as time goes on”: The way we speak about time tends to strongly imply that the passage of time is some ...