Jim Carrey, Selena Gomez and Avril Lavigne are some of the stars who have found themselves at the center of viral theories ...

There are, however, bigger conspiracies that lurk underneath the surface of society. While many of them involve the illegal transfer of money or drugs, others affect the public at large in strange, ...

Political scientist Joseph Uscinski, a professor at the University of Miami, talks about conspiracy theories and the people who believe them. Uscinski’s research has found that conspiracy theories are ...

Flat Earth, Illuminati, fake moon landing - these are the things that come to most people’s minds when you think about conspiracy theories. Although these are definitely the biggest theories out there ...

Was the moon landing fake — or are you just really tired? Not getting enough sleep on a consistent basis has been linked to a higher likelihood of believing conspiracy theories in a new study by the ...

Much of the psychological research on conspiracy theories to date has focused on trying to explain why people believe them. But unlike the idiosyncratic and unshared nature of delusional thinking that ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...