Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started out with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow ...

Melvin M. Vopson does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A chi-square (χ2) statistic is a test that is used to measure how expectations compare to actual observed data or model ...

Beth Barnes and three of her colleagues sit cross-legged in a semicircle on a damp lawn on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. They are describing their attempts to interrogate ...

The results of this experiment appear to indicate that the presentation of encouraging and supportive platitudes may actually ...

A new study suggests that the Step Pyramid of Djoser may have been built using a system way ahead of its time.