The realm of "Star Trek" boasts its fair share of strong characters, from unique alien species to omnipotent godlike beings.

We conclude that brain states are shaped by local circuit mechanisms, large-scale connectivity and neuromodulation. A unified multiscale theory of cortical dynamics is relevant not only for ...

The housing affordability crisis is so acute in the short run that policymakers are reaching for financial engineering ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

Physicists have finally secured direct evidence that quantum spin ice, a long-hypothesized and highly unusual state of matter ...

An idea about the sun’s magnetic field called the terminator model could help predict dangerous space weather more accurately ...

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

A new theory for the origins of dark matter suggests that fast-moving, neutrino-like dark particles could have decoupled from ...

The Danish novelist’s septology, On the Calculation of Volume, asks what fiction can explore when you remove one of its key ...

Before Einstein, before Bohr, there was a Jesuit priest with a telescope and a startlingly modern vision of the universe.

Addressing health inequalities is an international priority. Various approaches have gained popularity in the academic ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says —resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing ...