There are plenty of life-friendly stellar systems in the Universe today. But at some point in the far future, life's final extinction will occur.
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Sophisticated rovers have found the conditions for Martian life, as well as the building blocks of life, but never life itself. AI can help.
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
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Origin of life studies have always focused on a set of strict environments that could give rise to life. Ante-life opens new possibilities.
How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history's greatest scientists found the answer: with math.
Although early Earth was a molten hellscape, once it cooled, life arose almost immediately. That original chain of life remains unbroken.
There are many things in life that cannot be improved with greater effort. Sometimes, life requires that you step back.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
The best answer we have is, "Life is matter with intentionality."
This oddball system of three stars might be our best chance at finding nearby life in the Universe.
Life in the supremely vast cosmos is incredibly rare. We need a new vision for our living planet and for ourselves.
The most celebrated genius in human history didn't just revolutionize physics, but taught many valuable lessons about living a better life.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.
Does humanity have a moral imperative to seed life on lifeless worlds? And should we avoid colonizing a planet if life already exists there?
The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
The cycles of life all rely on the dynamism of the Earth's crust.
Radical Emotional Acceptance calls on you to celebrate all of life's emotions — even the negative ones.
Unlock the paradoxes of life through poetic realism.
In a recent paper, biologists outlined a three-part hypothesis for how all life as we know it began.
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
While Taoism can be paradoxical and abstract, it also offers daily life lessons.
Life is the only physical system that actively uses information.
Albert Camus was a Franco-Algerian philosopher with some great insights on the meaning of life, why you should look to this life and not the next, and why suicide is a poor choice.
Earth wasn't created until more than 9 billion years after the Big Bang. In some lucky places, life could have arisen almost right away.
This biochemist is determined to create a new life form by reversing the shape of molecules.
We were not born to stagnate — the point of life (and work) is to go somewhere.
The road to intelligent life is a series of hard steps.
Between the hedonic and eudaimonic life, there's a happy medium to be found.