Dr. Stephen Hawking's new book, “The Grand Design,” makes the bold claim that the universe “created itself from nothing” based on physical laws such as gravity, making God unnecessary for a ...

Long before the pyramids, there was Ptah. Revered in Memphis as the god of creation, Ptah used his heart and voice to bring the universe into existence. This video uncovers the myth, the worship, and ...

In the vast expanse of ancient literature, few works shine with the sheer brilliance and mystery of the Rigveda. A revered text in Hindu philosophy and one of the oldest surviving scriptures in human ...

The Big Bang theory has provided the most widely accepted basis of our understanding of the universe since it was first proposed by Georges Lemaitre in 1927. In short, it posits that all the matter in ...

There's one question that most of us ask at some point in our lives whose answer still eludes humanity: where did all this come from? Any component of reality that we ask that question of ⁠— of where ...

British physicist Stephen Hawking's latest book is already making waves with his observation that science can explain the universe's origin without invoking God. "Because there is a law such as ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I should make it clear from the start that I ...