Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Albert Einstein stands next to Catholic priest Georges Lemaître in a black and white photo from 1900 In 1915, Albert Einstein published his theory of general relativity, which originally stated that ...

While all the previous responses (1 January) to this question correctly explain how theories never become facts, they refer to the phenomena being explained by theories as facts. It is erroneous to ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, is pushing forward on a reworked civics education curriculum for K-12. For DeSantis, the new plan is as much on what it bans, as what it promotes. "Let me be ...

Since The Big Bang Theory is one of the most successful sitcoms of all-time, many fascinating facts about the TV show have been revealed. For example, fans learned about the gross thing Mayim Bialik ...

An awful lot of people in the press were eager last year, maybe a little too eager, to dismiss the theory suggesting the COVID-19 virus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China. It was foolish then to ...

A common misconception in the public debate between evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design/Creationism is to call evolutionary theory “just a theory.” While it is true that it is a theory, the ...

Critical race theory is a collection of ideas about systemic bias and privilege. Conservative elected officials in about a dozen states have moved to bar critical race theory in public schools or ...

RealClearPolitics took fact-checkers to task in a new report lambasting the likes of PolitiFact and FactCheck.org for their prior "embarrassing" analysis of the COVID-19 Wuhan lab leak theory. "How ...

As someone who has taught about the origins of our government and the melancholy history of racism in America associated with our beginnings as a nation, I have been baffled by the discussions that ...

There is an underlying assumption in this question of there being a concrete “reality”, for which a perfect description can be found. This perfect description would then be an indisputable fact. Some ...