The first person infected with COVID-19 could have caught the virus from a bat while working at the controversial Wuhan virology lab — but Chinese officials pressured the World Health Organization to ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is ...

The conventional explanation for the moon's formation is that an enormous rock smashed into the nascent Earth and created it as a result. A new theory challenges the particulars of how events may have ...

Null hypothesis vs. hypothesis, which is the right choice? When you get into the different methods of analyzing data, there ...

Chinese virologist Shi Zhengli (L) is seen inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan in this 2017 photo. The P4 epidemiological laboratory, part of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is one of the world's ...

I have a new theory. I should point out that it is not a theorem. You may wonder what the difference between a theory and a theorem is. You probably don't wonder, but just in case you do I am going to ...

Broadly speaking, there are two competing hypotheses on the origin of modern humans: the Out-of-Africa hypothesis and the multiregional hypothesis. Both agree that Homo erectus originated in Africa ...

When I heard there was a new gourmet burger restaurant in town my mouth started watering. There are many things I enjoy eating but it’s hard to beat a really good hamburger. Burger Theory can be found ...

Until the 21st century, it was widely believed that the first humans arrived in North America via a land bridge from what is now Russia and Alaska. Anthropologists have since been dismantling that ...