Tag: astrobiology
With an Assist from Nature, DNA Travels the Globe
Life makes its way around the world using nonliving transportation systems, seeding the world with complex specified information.
The Circumstellar Habitable Zone Just Shrank
New research suggests that the circumstellar habitable zone for terrestrial planets around stars is narrower than previously thought.
Astrobiology: Searching for the Origin of Life, In All the Wrong Places
Astrobiologists think they may have found where life came from — cyanide in meteorites!
On the 15th Anniversary of The Privileged Planet: An Update
The basic thesis of TPP is that the best places for intelligent observers are also the best places for observing.
“The Ultimate Bootstrap”
Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter.