Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as singularities, i.e., points where the laws of physics break down. Identifying how ...

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I am fed up with fundamentalist nonsense as in Rick Protz' commentary ("Evolution is merely a theory, not a fact," Feb. 7). I did read the guest editorial of Mr. Lyons ("Creationism creeps back to ...

Thales and natural causation -- Anaximander orders the cosmos -- Pythagoras numbers the cosmos -- Atoms and the void -- Aristotle and the birth of biology -- Aristarchus, the forgotten Copernicus -- ...

Made famous in 1995 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Pillars of Creation in the heart of the Eagle Nebula have captured imaginations worldwide with their arresting, ethereal beauty. Now, NASA has ...