Physics is a very powerful and exact science. Physicists can predict how electricity will flow through the microscopic circuits in your computer, they can land a spaceship on the moon, they can even pick up a single atom. But when it comes to the origin of the universe, even the smartest physicists can’t give us definite answers. How did its ...

These days everything from cookies to orange juice carry labels boasting that they’re GMO free – a marketing ploy that assumes consumers still hate, fear or at least disapprove of genetically modified organisms (GMO) despite reassurances from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. While science journalists have bemoaned this as irrational fear, people might be making a reasonable ...

When Margrethe Vestager’s five-year term as European competition commissioner ends, the world’s biggest tech companies will breathe a sigh of relief. The Danish politician has been a thorn in the side of the Silicon Valley giants, imposing back taxes on Apple and Amazon.com and fines on Facebook and Google parent Alphabet Inc. “I suspect that, assuming as we all do ...