How are controversial ideas handled by modern science? A common charge leveled against science (generally by those who are unhappy with its conclusions) is that the only way to get funding or continue ...

Every time a coffee mug drops, a satellite orbits or an astronaut floats, we are watching the same phenomenon play out under very different disguises. For centuries we have treated gravity as the ...

Now if the scientific community came along and said dark energy was a force, and said it has more in common with gravity that the other forces, that would sit right with me. It would be like those 2 ...