Month: November 2014
One Thing Comet Probe Hubbub Has Right: Water Is Vital to Life Chemistry
With the landing of a probe on comet 67P, excitement has centered on the idea that life arose in water carried here by comets.
European Space Probe Lands on Comet, Heralded by Overheated Promises of Solving the Enigma of Life
At best, closely examining a comet may illustrate a scenario whereby organic molecules were delivered to our planet, or to another.
Yes, "We’ve Been Wrong About Robots Before," and We Still Are
“Superintelligence” and the supposed “dangers” it poses to humanity are about where the global-warming scare was circa 2005.
Privileged Species with Michael Denton, the Antidote to Cosmos, Will Have Its Southern California Premiere on Friday
A gorgeous new documentary investigates the special properties of carbon, water, and oxygen that make human life and the life of other organisms possible.
Sibling Theories, Fraternal Twins: What Darwinian Evolution and the Multiverse Have in Common
Cosmologists Hiranya Peiris and Matt Johnson seek evidence in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) for past collisions of bubble universes with our own.