Discover how search theory illuminates market frictions, affecting employment, pricing, and transactions. Learn its ...

You may think of physics as a way to explain the behaviors of things like black holes, colliding particles, falling apples, and quantum computers. But a small group physicists today is working on a ...

A theory as to why we haven't heard from aliens which renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking agreed with has resurfaced online. Planet Earth is about the size of a speck of ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

"Where did we come from? How did the universe come into being? Are we alone in the universe? Is there alien life out there? What is the future of the human race?" Such questions are at the heart of ...

Einstein’s gravity-explaining theory of general relativity may not tell the complete story of how galaxies and black holes formed throughout the universe. New supercomputer simulations implementing ...

Ethnobotanist and psychedelics advocate, Terence McKenna, wrote a book called Food of the Gods, which is an exploration of humans’ symbiotic relationships with plants and chemicals—now and in ...

If you have ever missed that train or that plane, it might be an inconvenient headache. Or it could actually be the setback you needed in your day, according to the “burnt toast theory.” Burnt toast ...

Understanding the biology behind consciousness (or self-awareness) is considered by some to be the final frontier of science. And over the last decade, a fledgling community of “consciousness ...

As humans continue to search for life in space, some experts speculate the so-called Great Filter theory lies behind why nobody is responding to our call. Civilisations likely destroy themselves ...

The idea that an infinite number of parallel worlds could exist alongside our own is hard to wrap the mind around, but a version of this so-called Many Worlds theory could provide an answer to the ...