What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

In defining the word "theory," Merriam-Webster.com specifically identifies the challenges associated with the word: there are two senses of theory which are sometimes troublesome. These are the senses ...

The hypothesis that COVID-19 originated from a Chinese laboratory, rather than a naturally occurring jump from animals to human beings, received a major boost over the weekend. The Wall Street Journal ...

Was SARS-COV-2 — the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic — created (or at least weaponized by being made transmissible to and between humans) in a Chinese research lab? Was it then leaked, ...

The efficient market hypothesis theory states that the market prices securities fairly and efficiently, and investors are unable to outperform the market consistently. Moreover, EMH theory proposes ...

Conspiracy theories are nothing new on TikTok, and another one of them has gone viral, offering alleged proof we are all living in a simulated universe created and controlled by some unknown power we ...

Last summer, Michael Imperiale, a University of Michigan virologist and 10-year member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity, published an essay on the need to “rethink” some basic ...

SEATTLE — What is the "hygiene hypothesis" and does it have any legs among medical circles right now? HealthLink talked with a local physician about it to explain. The hygiene hypothesis is a theory ...

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 ...

I first heard of the Riemann hypothesis — arguably the most important and notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics — from the late, great Eli Stein, a world-renowned mathematician at Princeton ...