At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

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Philosophy of science treats knowledge as ever-evolving, rather than fixed in place. Scientific theories do not need to ...

Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their ...

Physics is this close to understanding the entire universe. And what lives in this gap? Many physicists think it’s the ...