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Hubble Investigates an Enigmatic Globular Cluster
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Dotter.

Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel Sells “Something from Nothing”: I’m Not Buying

In order to push this, he has to make some pretty big changes to our normal dictionary definition of what "nothing" means. Read More ›
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Is the Multiverse Science or Religion?

Or pseudoscience? A no-nonsense theoretical physicist reveals a gift for comedy as she tries to explain theories that place no constraints on what can happen. Read More ›
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Photo: Galaxies as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, by NASA, ESA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI).

How Do We Know the Age of the Universe?

A correspondent asked me recently how we know the age of the universe. The answer is calculated from the inverse of the Hubble constant. Read More ›
Carina-Nebula
Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Calm Down: Yes, the Big Bang Happened

Don Lincoln, a Fermilab scientist, addresses claims that infrared images from the James Webb Space Telescope cast doubt on the veracity of the Big Bang. Read More ›
Big Bang
Image credit: Rick Bolin, via Flickr (cropped).

Cyclic Universe Can’t Avoid a Cosmic Beginning

The recent flutter over whether the James Webb Space Telescope’s data stream is a plus or a minus for the Big Bang raised interesting cosmological issues. Read More ›
Perseid meteor
Photo: Perseid meteor, by NASA/Bill Ingalls.

Physicist: “The Multiverse Is a Lot Like God”

I have to admit it makes me smile to think Professor Gleiser’s thoughts ahead of him. Read More ›
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Photo credit: dynamosquito from France, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Human Brain Shape Has Hardly Changed

The changes in human heads were not driven by a changing brain, researchers say. It was the human face that changed. Read More ›
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Generic Intelligent Design, the Multiverse, or One God?

Stephen Meyer examines the multiverse theory and why it fails to explain away the insistent evidence of a cosmic designer. Read More ›
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Image: Jupiter via James Webb Space Telescope, from NASA, CC 2.0.

James Webb Telescope Goes Live: Stephen Meyer Reports

The Webb telescope can see far enough to witness galaxies from the very early universe. Read More ›
Carina-Nebula
Photo credit: Carina Nebula, by James Webb Space Telescope via NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.

Stephen Meyer: How Misunderstood Science Drives Religious Disbelief

What a shame that the scientific mainstream has done such a poor job of communicating its own discoveries to the public. Read More ›

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