Nature doesn’t owe us a life-friendly environment. There are far more ways the universe could have developed that are ...

The right light,” says Dr. McLatchie, would be like the thickness of “a few playing cards in a stack stretching beyond the galaxy of Andromeda.” ...

Instead of insisting on the absurdity that nothing is conscious, a scientist can maintain materialism by holding that ...

They forgot to ask Dr. Sternberg about this problem. The smooth narrative of the documentary is expected to carry the viewer ...

The only lame excuse for an actual explanation of what “drives” it all is “chance”: “the chance events that rewired ancient ...

I am delighted to begin a two-part conversation with physicist Dr. Bijan Nemati about his work on the Nancy Roman Space ...

Some are celebrating Canada’s government “indefinitely suspending” legalizing euthanasia for mental illness as a great ...

Two decades ago, the book of the breathless hour was The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, ...

Skeptical Hume held that “Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions,” and can “never pretend to any other ...

Elon Musk, whose ambition for space colonies is legendary, has said, “This is a close match for my philosophy.” ...

Scientific Inference or Philosophical Preference?, co-edited by Steve Meyer, Jon Buell, and myself, has just been released ...

The theme is not unfamiliar: neither the falsehood nor the reasons for it are news. But three efforts at reform are worth ...