Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds all from nothing
It turns out that almost nothing is as curious or as enlightening as, well, nothing. What is nothingness? Where can it be found? The writers of the world's top-selling science magazine investigate from the big bang, dark energy, and the void to superconductors, vestigial organs, hypnosis, and the placebo effect and discover that understanding nothing may be the key to understanding everything:
What came before the big bang, and will our universe end?
Incredible discoveries from the fringes of the universe to the inner workings of our minds all from nothing
How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a revolutionary new one. We, and all living things, exist because of the action of evolution on the first simple life form and its descendants. We now know that it has taken 3.8 billions of years of work by the forces of evolution to turn what was once a lump of barren rock into the rich diversity of into plants, animals and microbes that surround us. In the process, evolution has created all manner of useful adaptions, from biological...
How did we get here? All cultures have a creation story, but a little over 150 years ago Charles Darwin introduced a ...
