It’s safe to say that at the end of its eight-episode first season, Prime Video and the Westworld team of Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have seemingly pulled off the impossible and successfully adapted ...

From the mind-bending logic of the liar paradox to the mysteries of time travel and infinity, this video explains the most fascinating paradoxes across philosophy, science, and mathematics all in just ...

Pope Leo XIV encouraged Turkey’s small Catholic community Friday to rediscover what he called the Gospel’s “logic of littleness,” urging them not to be discouraged by their tiny numbers but to ...

A foundational 1956 study of the concept, focussed on a U.F.O. doomsday cult, has been all but debunked by new research.

The College Football Playoff selection committee released the fifth edition of their top-25 rankings on Tuesday. Arguably the biggest surprise of these rankings was the fact that Alabama and Notre ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official — a shift ...

The world around Adiyala is transforming at a dizzying pace. Khan and his party are staring into a wall of uncertainty that shrouds their future and leaves them with increasingly shrinking options.

In 1942, the Manhattan Project needed to create a chain reaction—a crucial step toward proving that it would be possible to make an atomic bomb. The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear reaction ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...