Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed answers aren't straightforward.

Beginning in the mid-20th century, Western intellectuals began dismantling the concept of objective truth. Postmodern ...

Parallel worlds sound like science fiction, but modern physics paints a different picture. Quantum mechanics suggests that ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...