On October 1 1975, the academic journal Screen published an essay by British film theorist Laura Mulvey titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. It is a groundbreaking critique of classical ...

Dark matter shapes galaxies string theory offers a hidden framework and evolution explains life all part of one unfolding mystery. Supreme Court lets Trump withhold $4 billion in foreign aid approved ...

Physicists have devised a new model to account for the discomfort that airline passengers know all too well. By Alexander Nazaryan Bjorn Birnir dreads an airplane seatmate asking what he does for a ...

A South African pastor's apocalyptic prophecy has sparked widespread panic—and ridicule—across social media, as some Christians brace for the Rapture to take place today. The viral claim by Joshua ...

One day after claiming his administration has “found an answer to autism,” President Trump announced new efforts on Monday to warn Americans that taking Tylenol and other acetaminophen-based pain ...

We often wonder whether there are aliens on other planets but what if we ourselves are aliens on the planet we call home? Panspermia, the “controversial” theory that life “began elsewhere in space” ...

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a ...

Today, on the last day of the U.S. Open, we have a chat with a tennis writer. By Adam B. Kushner I am the editor of this newsletter. I’m a delusional tennis player. Not the kind who brags about his ...

Taylor Swift has dated her fair share of men. Whether or not the amount is too many or perfectly normal for a woman growing up in the spotlight in her teens, 20s and 30s is really up for personal ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) According to a growing body of data, dark energy is not constant. Instead, physicists claim, it’s slowly getting weaker. This has understandably shaken our understanding of ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: String theory—the idea that particles are not point-like, but instead one-dimensional strings—is a popular theoretical framework that attempts to ...