The science that was repulsive to an idea of religious belief thus began to embrace religious ideas culminating with the discovery of the Higgs boson or ‘God particle’, completing the stan­­-dard ...

Professor Bealer was well-known for his contributions to metaphysics and cognate areas. He taught at Reed College, the University of Colorado at Boulder, the University of Texas at Austin, and, from ...

A Grade 9 student at a Dubai school is creating ripples not just in the UAE but even abroad, driven by her passion for astrophysics and exploring the unive..

Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity 120 years ago, and despite numerous attempts to challenge it, the theory still remains intact and valid. It is a simple but powerful concept that ...

Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical ...

According to conventional wisdom, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity showed that the flow of time is an illusion, and that reality is a fixed block. And philosophers from Augustine to McTaggart have ...

Cultivating an understanding of a range of central philosophical debates, as well as of the history of philosophy (ancient, modern and contemporary), all major areas of philosophy are available for ...

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History books can only cover so much, and most of us haven’t cracked one open since we were in college. But if you want to ...

Philip Ball looks at how a little-known paper by Niels Bohr demonstrates the turmoil in physics on the brink of quantum ...