It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

For those totally out of the loop, Larian had created its own fantasy RPG universe — Divinity — long before it was handed the ...

Aida Austin wrote a column for Weekend magazine for seven years. Now she is publishing her first book, a beautiful and ...

Upper class” sounds like something out of a period drama… until you realize people quietly use it every day to compare ...

There’s a treasure trove hiding in plain sight in St. Charles, Illinois, where one person’s castoffs become another’s prized possessions. The Salvation Army Family Store & Donation Center isn’t just ...

The Salvation Army Family Store & Donation Center stands as a monument to the increasingly radical notion that shopping shouldn’t require a credit check or leave you eating cereal for the rest of the ...