Scientists have long tried to explain the origin of a mysterious, large and anomalously cold region of the sky. In 2015, they came close to figuring it out as a study showed it to be a "supervoid" in ...

The challenge of climate change has produced two parallel universes populated largely by the same group of people. One is the plastic-free, low carbon, new fuel green one that they are out protesting ...

• Brendan Keenan's article in response to the IMF suggestion of mortgage debt relief ends with a question "What is feasible?" in reference to Ireland. One-hundred-year mortgages is the simple answer.

Even the cold-hearted will get the message from Constellations, Nick Payne’s obsessive romantic comedy, which is being staged at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, that speculating about people’s love lives ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

One of the most popular science fiction tropes in movies and TV, right up there with time travel and extraterrestrial life, is the idea of parallel universes or alternate universes. The concept of an ...

It is billed as a major policy announcement, outlining John Swinney’s plans for the final year of the parliamentary session. Yet what we know so far of the content of his Programme for Government, to ...

Parallel universes and multiverses are an interesting concept to tackle in art. The idea that there is a universe like ours existing at the same time and under different conditions and rules is pretty ...