Tag: earth
In First Detection of Gravitational Waves, Timing Was Everything
Let’s look at how timing across multiple orders of magnitude brought together cosmic and human events.
Top Science Journal: Let’s Export Wokeness to Outer Space
Equity advocate says future space colonies should be governed similarly to places like San Francisco or Portland.
Do Present Proposals on Chemical Evolutionary Mechanisms Point Toward the First Life?
Abiogenesis is the prebiotic process wherein life, such as a cell, arises from non-living materials such as simple organic compounds.
The Problem of Earth Privilege: It’s Getting Worse
So, the Earth is just a humdrum planet? Far from it, astrobiologist Guillermo Gonzalez argues.
Johannes Kepler on the Holy Work of Astronomy
Kepler rejected the idea that the enormous scale of the cosmos suggested that mankind is less important than in the cozier Aristotelian-Ptolemaic model.