Physicists are closing in on one of the most persistent mysteries in particle physics: whether a hidden kind of neutrino is ...

Could one genetic mutation be sufficient to bring on complex psychopathology? For decades, dominant models of mental ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

The rare earth hypothesis was proposed in a 2000 book by palaeontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee. It argues that while simple, microbial life may be common in the universe, complex, ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Bill McGurn, Allysia Finley and Kim Strassel. I was an academic scientist at Penn State in February 2020, when I became the target of an online ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

Imagine a planet much like Earth, except instead of green trees dotting its swaths of land, two species of flowers—black daisies and white daisies—are the dominant plant life. The flowers are ...

Ali Hazelwood fans, unite. The Love Hypothesis is becoming a movie. The film began rounds of casting mid-July 2025. Hazelwood’s book arrived on shelves Sept. 14, 2021thanks to Berkley Books. The ...