MIT-trained Rizwan Virk says something that is surprising: that his approach to cosmology is a branch of intelligent design.

In one scenario based on a sci-fi movie, something called “The Shimmer is interfering with the fundamental patterns of life, ...

Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are ...

Elon Musk, whose ambition for space colonies is legendary, has said, “This is a close match for my philosophy.” ...

Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great ...

Instead of insisting on the absurdity that nothing is conscious, a scientist can maintain materialism by holding that ...

The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.” ...

Two decades ago, the book of the breathless hour was The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, ...

Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other ...

I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space ...

The only lame excuse for an actual explanation of what “drives” it all is “chance”: “the chance events that rewired ancient ...

They forgot to ask Dr. Sternberg about this problem. The smooth narrative of the documentary is expected to carry the viewer ...