All the tech we rely on, from cars to smartphones, was engineered using physics. You don’t need to know the science to use these things. But a well-rounded human should understand at least some of the ...

A recent interview with the well-known physicist Sean Carroll on “the physics of consciousness” gives us a great example of a reductive physicalist view of consciousness and the world around us. In it ...

Is the universe thinking and learning on some level? This is a thorny subject, but one that some researchers are willing to consider. According to research that was published in the pre-print server ...

Not even the most advanced physics can reveal everything we want to know about the history and future of the cosmos, or about ourselves. An infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Sometimes the universe is just too complicated to analyze. Heck, if you take a tennis ball and toss it across the room, even that is practically too complicated. After it leaves your hand, the ball ...

From the multiverse to black holes, here’s your cheat sheet to the spooky side of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

What if there was a way to make stronger coffee, but use less beans from your stash? Well, according to a new study from the American Institute of Physics, all it takes is recalling high school ...

All About space issue 126 explores distant alien worlds, the Big Bang theory and a star that shouldn’t exist. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...