New research investigates how Hawking radiation from primordial black holes may have influenced cosmic formation.

An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries.

Evolution is nature's engine, driving and shaping genetic change and the diversity around us. Charles Darwin famously ...

Sometimes, the most significant scientific discoveries happen by accident. Scientists have long known that whole-genome ...

Using the mathematics of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravity, called general relativity ... from the motion of planets to the ...

Stephen Hawking's 1966 PhD thesis, Properties of Expanding Universes, laid the groundwork for his renowned contributions to ...

Dark matter has baffled physicists for nearly a century, quietly shaping our universe's unseen framework. Invisible yet ...

It's well known that the universe began in an explosion known as the Big Bang, but scientists now say that it might end with ...

Discover how iron's opacity in the sun challenges scientific models, and how researchers are working to resolve the discrepancy.

5TRON, Translational Oncology at the University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany. 6Institute of Pathology, University Medical Center Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg ...

We don’t know for sure, but the answer is inextricably linked to the moment when water first materialized in the cosmos — and ...

Such sources were available to Butler. Even in the 1920s, it was not difficult to learn about evolution from popular books with forthright titles such as “The Theory of Evolution: With Special ...