Last May, Stephen Hawking gave a talk at Google's Zeitgeist Conference in which he declared philosophy to be dead. In his book The Grand Design, Hawking went even further. "How can we understand the ...

Let's rewind the clock back…oh, I don't know, let's say a hundred years. It was 1917, and Einstein had just developed his ...

That modern cosmology suggests a Creator has long been argued by apologists. But what does cosmology—the study of our universe, or the cosmos—tell us about the kind of Creator we have? That question ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

There's always a touch of melancholy when a chapter that has absorbed years of work comes to an end. In the case of the ...

Thomas Kitching receives funding from the Royal Society, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council. Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and ...

In part 1 of this podcast, cosmologists Alan Guth from M.I.T., Arizona State University's Lawrence Krauss, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, and Fermilab's Scott Dodelson discuss the ...

As per the title, simple question: what are the most up-to-date books on cosmology? Obviously I mean for the layman, not the PhD research student! I haven't read a good one in quite a while, ie many ...

Science is advancing rapidly. We are eradicating diseases, venturing further into space and discovering a growing zoo of subatomic particles. But cosmology – which is trying to understand the ...