Are humans alone in the universe? The answer is more complicated than science fiction might suggest. Scientists have discovered billions upon billions of potentially habitable planets. But if life is ...

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Source: Wikimedia Commons/Christof Bernhard Francke/Public Domain. Why does the world exist? Or to put it another way, why is there something rather than nothing? This ultimate mystery in philosophy ...

A BIGWIG fintech boss sacked his entire HR team for “creating problems that did not exist” – and claims that issues “disappeared” after the sweeping layoffs. Bolt, a company that expedites online ...

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Modern cosmology assumes dark matter exists. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is the answer—and what if we're wrong? Reading time 8 minutes A huge chunk of the universe is missing. It’s ...

The Saudi-funded league is reportedly on the verge of losing its funding and possibly shutting down. Bob Harig explores what LIV now faces and answers key questions about its future. Widespread ...

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Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Universal History Archive / Getty. The problem with horses—one of the problems with horses, I say as a former horse girl—is that they are as stubborn as mules.

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When our son was 4 years old, he asked my wife and me: "Can you drive to heaven?" Out of the mouth of babes, right? It’s a question only a child would ask, but it raises a very adult question: Where ...

Wormholes are often imagined as tunnels through space or time—shortcuts across the universe. But this image rests on a misunderstanding of work by physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen. In 1935, ...