In a new book, physicist Sara Walker argues that assembly theory can explain what life is, and even help scientists create new forms of it.
What is life and how does one recognize it? asks Walker, an astrobiology professor at Arizona State University, in her bold debut. Defining life is a deceptively tricky endeavor, she argues, noting that the claim popular in scientific circles that “life is a self-sustaining chemical system capable of Darwinian evolution” would mean that worker bees aren’t alive because they can’t reproduce.
Two astrobiologists investigate extraterrestrial existence in The Secret Life of the Universe and Life As No One Knows It
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution.
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A shipbound student with time to kill was the first to figure out the fate of dying stars. Paul Davies explains.
When searching for E.T., scientists tend to look for signs of life with certain similarities to life on Earth. But abiding by that narrow definition of life could be the reason we still haven't found any aliens. Are we truly alone in the universe, or do we simply have no idea what we're looking for?
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Paul Davies' new article published on Physics Today and learn new information how key concepts bridge together physics and biology.
In May of this year, the Beyond Center worked with Moogsoft Inc. to conduct a workshop with efforts to inform public policy in response to the pandemic. The Cornell University article deals with the ideas expressed in the workshop by our scientists and their views for where future research may be found!