What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

A decade ago, the Kitzmiller versus Dover Area School District trial determined that the school-board-ordered teaching of Intelligent Design did not belong in the science classroom. The federal court ...

Conspiracy theories are nothing new on TikTok, and another one of them has gone viral, offering alleged proof we are all living in a simulated universe created and controlled by some unknown power we ...

The first person infected with COVID-19 could have caught the virus from a bat while working at the controversial Wuhan virology lab — but Chinese officials pressured the World Health Organization to ...

Last summer, Michael Imperiale, a University of Michigan virologist and 10-year member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, published an essay on the need to “rethink” some basic ...

Hypothesis. Theory. Law. These scientific words get bandied about regularly, yet the general public usually gets their meaning wrong. Now, one scientist is arguing that people should do away with ...

Under the Microscope:The term theory has a different meaning in science to its everyday meaning. A scientific theory is an official consensus scientific explanation of how some part of the natural ...

I am not sure if the fault lies with scientists, linguists or love. Let's pretend, for the moment, that it doesn't lie with NPR and the news media. Matt Kirby of Kansas City, MO, called to complain ...