This war is the latest consequence of a series of U.S. policy choices over the last 35 years that have made the United States less safe and intensified conflict across the Middle East. Those failures ...

Cheap houses, low interest rates and the opportunity to renovate and “flip” for big profits – buy-to-let has been such a dependable source of wealth that many pensioners have relied on it to fund ...

Scientists may have uncovered a surprising secret behind why life exists at all. A new study suggests that the Universe’s fundamental constants — the deep physical rules that govern everything from ...

Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force that keeps our feet on the ground and holds planets in orbit. The pursuit was more or ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. This week, Khazan looked into allegations from a woman named Cassie Phillips that Robbins ...

The year 2020 was a bad one for Cassie Phillips. Her husband had recently returned from an overseas deployment, and while he was away, she told me, she’d rarely heard from him. The pandemic began, and ...

Who ever could have guessed that the election of the first American pope would cause political problems at home? From the moment that Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV last year, a clash ...

The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), wasn't sure he wanted to know the secret number that lay ...

Physicists have just dropped a new precise measurement for gravity. The newly published value for the strength of gravity, known as “G” or “Big G”, is significantly smaller than some previous ...

Constellation Energy is a diversified energy company with 55 gigawatts of capacity across nuclear, gas, geothermal, wind, hydro, and solar. Its services were expanded following its acquisition of ...

Scientists from Brazil are challenging the traditional view of universal constants, proposing that only one constant—time itself—is needed to measure relativistic spacetime. The research team argued ...