The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

SciFi books and films never explain how faster-than-light speed works. Wormholes are one solution, but there are problems.

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

Ultrathin bismuthene islands on graphite slide freely in one direction and pause unpredictably, revealing new ways to control ...

Both Buffon's coin problem and Buffon's needle problem helped introduce geometric probability as a branch of probability theory. See the section on Buffon for biographical information as well as his ...