If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.

A contestant on the Wednesday, February 19, Wheel of Fortune episode set fans talking because many thought he was a dead ...

Galaxies, planets, black holes: to most people, everything about our Universe sounds and feels enormous. But while it's true that much of what happens millions of light years away is large, there are ...

But while it's true that much of what happens millions of light years away is large, there are also processes happening at ...

The first hints of quantum behaviour in nature came in works by physicists Max Planck in 1900 and Albert Einstein in 1905 ... quantum field theory has its own puzzles. Infamously, a ...

“This level of X-ray variability, in terms of intensity and rapidity, is extreme,” said Meg Urry, the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy ... at nearly the speed of light, effects of ...

So her aide sought the perspective of an iconoclastic MIT professor, Theodore A. Postol, who in the months after the attack had released preliminary research suggesting that the use of chemical ...