Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

Thales and natural causation -- Anaximander orders the cosmos -- Pythagoras numbers the cosmos -- Atoms and the void -- Aristotle and the birth of biology -- Aristarchus, the forgotten Copernicus -- ...

I am fed up with fundamentalist nonsense as in Rick Protz' commentary ("Evolution is merely a theory, not a fact," Feb. 7). I did read the guest editorial of Mr. Lyons ("Creationism creeps back to ...

Physicists have shown that particles produced in collimated sprays called jets retain information about their origins in subatomic particle smashups. Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE ...