Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. What is the universe expanding into if it ...

Our Universe is not fine-tuned for life, but it’s still kind of OK Inspired by the Drake equation, researchers optimize a model universe for life.

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) uses lasers and mirrors to look for black holes across the ...

The universe is kind of an impossible object. It has an inside but no outside; it’s a one-sided coin. This Möbius architecture presents a unique challenge for cosmologists, who find themselves in the ...

Some physicists think our reality is a kind of cosmic hologram, with space, time, and gravity as manifestations of a 2-dimensional universe.

It is one of the most tantalizing questions at the intersection of neuroscience, physics, and philosophy: are our brains merely in the universe, or are they in some sense of the universe? The ...

Last week, Wolfram launched a new venture: the Wolfram Physics Project, an ambitious attempt to develop a new physics of our universe. The new physics, he declares, is computational.

Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm designed to visualize models of the universe in order to solve some of physics' greatest mysteries.

Out There Who Will Have the Last Word on the Universe? Modern science suggests that we and all our achievements and memories are destined to vanish like a dream. Is that sad or good?

A recent experiment suggests the brain is not too warm or wet for consciousness to exist as a quantum wave that connects with the rest of the universe.

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is hundreds of thousands of light-years long.