A good chunk of cosmology is riding on whether dark matter exists or not. But what makes us so certain that dark matter is ...

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The Ark of the Covenant is one of the most intriguing and mysterious artifacts in religious history. Allegedly holding the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, its existence has been debated for ...

You try; non-living things don’t. What, then, is trying and how did it start? Trying starts with what Darwin called the struggle for existence which he admitted he couldn’t explain and remains ...

These are not optional. You cannot deny them without using them. For instance, to argue that logic is unreliable, you must use logic. To deny meaning, you must use meaningful language. So, TAG begins ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On a quiet pandemic afternoon in 2021, Zhiyuan Wang, then a graduate student at Rice University, was alleviating his boredom by working ...