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It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...

Parallel worlds sound like science fiction, but modern physics paints a different picture. Quantum mechanics suggests that particles don’t choose one path—they follow all possible paths, branching ...

Scientists have many big questions to tackle about the universe, including how big it actually is. But even the proposed ...

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within ...