What shapes our self-esteem? Our self-views, or others' opinions? Brain scans show how low self-esteem is wired in the brain.

The mysterious case of missing Hawaiian photographer Hannah Kobayashi has been marred by wild conspiracy theories — including that she was brainwashed by a cult or blackmailed by African hackers ...

Theories abounded, some plausible, others far-fetched. Then, on Thursday, news broke that Gaetz had withdrawn his name from consideration for the attorney general role, prompting a new wave of ...

It didn’t take long after the presidential election for the conspiracy theories to unspool. People on X, posters on Threads, TikTok influencers, viral Substack newsletters all hummed with ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been proven right on the largest scale yet. An analysis of millions of galaxies shows that the way they have evolved and clustered over ...

A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon. A new theory, that ...

The Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer (BCS) theory of superconductivity won them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972. Having worked out one of the hardest problems in physics, Cooper turned his ...