As the story is usually told, science began when some deep thinkers in ancient Greece decided to reject the popular mythological explanations for various natural phenomena. Those early philosophers ...

Scientists are like prospectors, excavating the natural world seeking gems of knowledge about physical reality. And in the century just past, scientists have dug deep enough to discover that reality’s ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Time feels like the most basic feature of reality. Seconds tick, days pass ...