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One theory for the origin of the moons -- the "giant impact" hypothesis -- is that they formed after a celestial body collided with Mars.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

“We don’t like to use fear theory to motivate people, but that’s the situation we are in,” Abu Jaffar said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Proponents of the castaway theory argue this may have been a misunderstanding of Earhart giving her location as near the Norwich City.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

These signatures are important because they differ from predictions associated with Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory, a long-established framework for describing how interacting quantum particles behave in one-dimensional systems.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

In theory, they were even given equal pay to men—an issue that wasn’t dealt with in law until 1963 in the United States and 1970 in the United Kingdom.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Kessler thought Spengler a “fat priest with a fat chin and brutal mouth” and his theories “the most hackneyed, trivial stuff,” but Kessler sensed the ominous turn in Germany’s cultural politics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

This one did something else, reaching extreme heights but never achieving the sustained success of more entrenched conspiracy theories.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

The Oxford project began in 2022, when lead author Dr. Sebastian Saner, Dr. Oana Bazavan, and their colleagues started developing a way to simulate lattice gauge theories using a hybrid quantum system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

When Shakur was killed, it sparked conspiracy theories about who was involved as well as introspection in the music industry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mercury's orbit, for instance, wobbled in a way that disagreed with what Newton predicted, but on the whole, Newton’s theories were tested again and again, and they usually passed.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife