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Last year, Ordnance Survey terrain data of the UK was built into the wildly popular digital domain of Minecraft, allowing users to...

Is the multiverse a more elegant explanation for physics than a single universe? University of Manchester physicist Brian Cox claims...

After more than a century, Einstein's theory of relativity is still confirmed time and time again. Physicists from institutions in...

One of the most significant questions in philosophy is that of the potential incompatibility between predeterminism and free will. The...

"Our particular universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to it."   This is the central argument behind Victor Stenger's...

The 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson, or inaptly-named "God particle," was a major breakthrough in our understanding of the universe,...

Do we live in a two-dimensional hologram? Scientists may discover that we live in a Matrix-like illusion during an upcoming experiment...

The multiverse theory essentially arose as an explanation of our universe's fine-tuning for the existence of life. Rather than accept...

Quantum mechanics is, by nature, abstract and often unobservable, as it describes the behavior of particles on a nanoscopic scale. But...

We know that when the Doctor undergoes his regeneration, every cell of his body changes, including his brain. He experiences gaps in...

In the Star Trek episode "Hard Time," Miles O'Brien is forced to experience twenty years worth of memories, specifically of a...

The relatively recent discovery of the Higgs boson explains why particles have mass, but it may also explain the expansion of our...

Could turning genes on and off explain the Hulk and Captain America? Scientists have already attempted to explain Hulk's super anger...

Can we modify human memories in order to treat mental illness? Researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have published a paper which...

Is our entire universe a mathematical structure? Does life consist of a specific pattern of spacetime? Are there multiverses with...

Could Star Wars really happen? Science writers Mark Brake and Jon Chase gave a presentation in May and physicist Andy Howell wrote up...

How powerful would Queen Elsa have to be to freeze the kingdom of Arendelle? McMaster University student Aaron Goldberg asks this...

Superman may be the most famous superhero of all time, but science has a few bones to pick with him. Students at the University of...

Is it a good idea to contact intelligent aliens? According to a recent Huffington Post poll, most Americans are either opposed to...

Can a property of an object be physically separated from the object itself? Physicists have long theorized a tenet of quantum...