The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit a piece to the Opinion section, click here. Last Wednesday, I sat in Green Hall having an ...

Singapore's polytechnics are transforming lecture halls into collaborative spaces, reflecting a shift towards blended learning and student-centric approaches. Examples include SP's green screen studio ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...

Imagine we had somehow filmed the whole history of the universe and you could play the movie in reverse. It would start off much as things stand today: a vast and elegant web of galaxies and nebulae.

The first time that University of Oxford astronomer Lyla Jung saw the cosmic configuration on her monitor, she almost didn’t believe it was real. But it was—and Jung and her colleagues went on to ...

Start off in any direction and fly through the universe. Out of our solar system, beyond the edge of the Milky Way, through the forest of galaxies that make up our Local Group into the wilderness of ...

I can accept the apparent violation of the light-speed-limit in the Big Bang theory by picturing there being no space at all before the BB. Before there was nothing, not even space. Then there was ...

An experiment with rats under anesthesia showed researchers that tiny structures your brain are responsible for the experience of consciousness. This is a major step toward verifying a theory that our ...

Lectures by new Chaired Professors, sponsored by the President of Smith College. These lectures are free and open to the public. Chaired Professor Lecturer series details for 2025-26 can be found on ...