The mountain dominates the western coast of New Zealand’s North Island, also known as Aotearoa. Its peak is like the center point of a sundial, the shadows on its slopes telling time. The cloud ...

For modern folks it can be challenging to believe in a God who is all powerful, all loving, all present and all knowing. It ...

The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...

The need to protect populations from environmental harm or contamination is not new. Whenever human welfare was imperiled, those in power within most ancient civilizations passed laws to address these ...

The paper proposes that the definition of "evolution" shouldn't be exclusively thought of as Darwinian or specific to the evolution of life and should be thought of more broadly, or as the paper ...

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A new guidebook aims to assist tribal nations across the United States in adopting legal frameworks that recognize the rights of nature. The growing rights-of-nature movement seeks to protect the ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Most physicists believe that our universe began with a Big Bang. But how did the laws of nature – for example, the strength of gravity, the speed of light, and the strength ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...