When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the oven, it expands into the baking pan. Any chocolate chips or blueberries in the muffin ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Is the universe really infinite? Or could it close back on itself like a sphere? If it’s infinite, how can it expand? And is it true that there might be copies of you in it?

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale.

It turns out a monkey – given an infinite amount of time and a typewriter – wouldn't be able to write Shakespeare before the universe ends, according to a new study. HARRY SHEARER: (As Charles ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. About a century ago, scientists were struggling to ...

It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...

Batman is one of the pillars of DC Comics, and the brooding vigilante is well known for having some of the darker stories in superhero mythos. The vigilante hero is rooted in pulpy crime noir and many ...