The Marvel Cinematic Universe has become a Marvel Cinematic Multiverse, opening up infinite possibilities. So far, the MCU’s ...

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In a nutshell New research challenges the long-held belief that human evolution required improbable “lucky breaks,” ...

Non-mixing layers of water and hydrocarbons thousands of miles deep could explain the icy planets’ strange magnetic fields.

“Our existence is probably not an evolutionary fluke,” says Jennifer Macalady, a study co-author and microbiology professor ...

Humanity may not be extraordinary but rather the natural evolutionary outcome for our planet and likely others, according to ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

Using a process known as quantum annealing, the researchers have provided a proof-of-concept method to study the dynamics of ...

In the quantum realm, the past, present, and future blur into a boundless structure. But consciousness may operate on a plane ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...