Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. What are the rules governing reality? If you can determine what the ...

In his Sept. 24 column, "Losing its grip on climate debate, the left imagines its foes in chains," Kevin O'Brien's description of the scientific method was quite interesting, but he forgot to include ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. The Universe is out there, waiting for you to discover it. Science, like many things in life, is always a work-in-progress. While ...

J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him to lose faith in the theory of evolution and is said to have replied, “Fossil ...

Adapted excerpt from Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, by Sabine Hossenfelder. Copyright © 2018. Available from Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books ...

Sabine Hossenfelder is a research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. Her research focuses on general relativity and quantum gravity. She is author of the blog ...

In casual conversation, people often use the word theory to mean "hunch" or "guess": If you forget to put the bread in the breadbox and discover chunks have been taken out of it the next morning, you ...

Can aliens explain both the origin of life and the fine tuning? Getty Images As crazy as it all sounds, scientists have long posited the possibility of aliens on our planet. In fact, Francis Crick ...

CLEVELAND (AP) - An Internet survey by Case Western Reserve University shows that many Ohio science professors say that public schools should not teach alternative concepts to evolution, the ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...