Evidence theory, particularly Dempster–Shafer theory, provides a comprehensive mathematical framework for representing and reasoning with uncertain and imprecise information. It has found widespread ...

For two decades, astronomers have chased a cosmic ghost: ultra‑massive “monster stars” that theory said must have existed but ...

Finding a way to unify conflicting scientific models into a “Theory of Everything” is essentially a Holy Grail of physics. Now a NASA observatory has conducted one of the first experimental tests of ...

The idea of string theory was first floated in the 1960s and '70s. Scientists may have found the first observational evidence that supports string theory -- a hypothetical framework in physics ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...