Tag: supernova
Metals: From Stars to Cells
Tracing metals back to their ultimate origins, the processes of stellar nucleosynthesis come into focus.
Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism
Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song.
No Iron, No Life: Intelligent Design in Iron Availability
As an exercise, count the number of lucky breaks that had to occur for the evolutionary story to work.
Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning
Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified.
Reader’s Question: Planets in the Early Universe
The problem with the early universe is that it was a much more dangerous place.