The Oct. 2 Science Matters Spotlight Sessions event celebrated 100 years since the first doctoral degree at Penn State was awarded, in physics.

Relationism is the idea that objects, entities and reality itself is defined and created by interactions and relationships. I will argue that relations aid in the understanding of spacetime for a ...

IntroductionIn recent years, conventional cosmology has reached a serious impasse. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) ...

I have been discussing the same question with generative AI repeatedly, using different approaches each time. If I neglect to do this, even if we have a conversation, I quickly forget it, and it goes ...

Near-mystical musings from a scientist who believes we are on the brink of a revolution in understanding ourselves ...

Under the letter “B” in the index at the back of Carlo Rovelli’s latest book you will find Francis Bacon, bats, behaviorism, ...

What lies beyond quarks and electrons? We explore string theory, preons, and quantum gravity, as well as the limits of modern ...

Socrates supposedly once asked the Athenian statesman Alcibiades “Tell me, how can we come to know the self itself?” ...

Avengers Endgame Encore opened to $86 million globally and brought the film to $2.885 billion lifetime, but its new scenes do ...

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve ...

It is a misconception widely entertained, even by some of its cleverest practitioners, that science is engaged in the pursuit of ultimate, foundational truths about the nature of reality. Science, ...

Physicists have tested the hypothesis that gravitational fluctuations in space-time can destroy quantum superposition and explain why large objects do not behave like particles. An experiment in the ...