Two weeks ago, when Till Sawala heard the news of a peer-reviewed paper that purported to upend our understanding of the universe, he immediately suspected that something was off. Then again, the ...

Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: If we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. This is known as the cosmological ...

Andreas Albrecht is a leading theoretical cosmologist and a distinguished professor emeritus in the UC Davis Department of Physics and Astronomy. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis) When Andreas Albrecht was ...

Mike Babcock was officially named the new Head Coach of the Edmonton Oilers Tuesday morning. He is the 19th Head Coach in franchise history. D.J. Smith, who worked on the bench with Babcock in Toronto ...

Far from diminishing interest, the rescheduling of the Jewish Culture Month event broadened its reach, enabling thousands more people to participate in a thoughtful exploration of one of the world's ...

The inaugural lecture originated in medieval times, when universities operated like guilds of scholars. The introductory lecture in those days was a declaration of intellectual mastery to show that ...

David H. DeVorkin is emeritus senior curator in the history of astronomy and the space sciences at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. What is the Universe?

A new documentary exploring mankind's biggest questions about the origin of the universe and whether science points to a creator will open in theaters nationwide this week. In "The Story of Everything ...

The universe is dead; long live the universe. Not right at this moment, not yet. But one day everything we know will be gone. The cities we build, the lakes we swim in, the planet we live on, the ...

Having thrown a stone today, Eshu kills a bird of yesterday. The Yoruba proverb tells both a story of reparation and of ancestrality by joyfully bending spacetime conventions and accessing subjects ...

Before her career as a novelist, Toni Morrison was a teacher. The famed American author, best known for works such as Beloved and Song of Solomon, was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931. After attending ...

Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and MAGA donor, is in Rome this week for a series of private lectures on the Antichrist. It’s an event that the Vatican, and the pope, are treating with ...