Viral videos keep insisting that fossil fuels are the only thing standing between modern society and collapse, but the ...

Physicists are fond of Gedankenexperimente—thought experiments that are difficult or impossible to perform in the real world. Schrödinger’s cat is a well-known example of a thought experiment, used to ...

Long before humans evolved, a small eel shaped creature swimming in ancient seas carried eyes that look strikingly familiar. New analysis of 443-million-year-old fossils from Scotland shows that some ...