Hidden for over 2,000 years, the tombs at Mawangdui in China contained some of the most well-preserved ancient texts ever ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

Abstract: A fascinating and yet under-explored question in the foundations of physical theory relates to the status of the distinction between constants of nature and constants of motion. A plausible ...

The statue at Fan Zhongyan’s tomb site in Yichuan County, Henan. In 1043, Fan’s Ten-Point Memorial proposed civil, military, and educational reforms not simply as policy corrections, but as acts of ...

Repulsive gravity at the quantum scale would have flattened out inhomogeneities in the early universe First light The cosmic microwave background, as imaged by the European Space Agency’s Planck ...

In the cosmogony of Pherecydes, tutor of Pythagoras, the wedding of Zeus and Hera is a central theme. Credit: Public Domain via wikimedia commons Pherecydes of Syros is one of the most enigmatic ...

About a year after launching into orbit around the Sun, the James Webb Space Telescope began imaging an abundance of little red dots, which scientists called, um, “little red dots.” I know—not only is ...

Billions, perhaps trillions, of years from now, long after the sun has engulfed Earth, cosmologists expect the universe will end. Some wrestle with whether it is more likely to collapse under its ...