He was the mathematician who ran through the streets shouting “Eureka!” — but that was only a glimpse of his genius. Archimedes of Syracuse laid the foundations for geometry, physics, and engineering, ...

When was the earth formed? What are the ancient milestones in man’s development? In recent years, scientists have tackled such mysteries by means of radioactive dating. By comparing the amount of ...

The view of the ancient universe revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful observatory ever launched, is so unexpected that scientists think it might pose a fundamental ...

Physicist Päs (The Perfect Wave) argues that “all is one” in this overly knotty survey of monism, or the belief that “in a quantum universe, there are no individual objects. All that exists is merged ...

The Chinese city of Xi’an has a deep, rich history. Remains from Lantian Man, belonging to the species Homo erectus, were discovered in the 20th century and dates to about 710,000 years ago, which is ...

There is rarely any sunlight in Spencer Axani’s home when he groggily rises from bed to log into his email. Axani is an assistant professor of physics at the University of Delaware, but it’s not ...