What is the meaning of life? Even the best of us couldn't hope to answer that question in a Universe Today article. But there are those who would try to "constrain" it, at least in terms of physics. A ...

CU Boulder is one of five ‘spokes’ of the Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe, charged with exploring the nature and extent of life in the universe For most of human history on Earth, we have ...

Challenge your mind right now. Come up with a brief, meaningful, and defensible definition of life. Try it. How hard can it be? You know life when you see it, right? You are life. So put that search ...

A Second New Paper Shows How Assembly Theory Fails to Define Life’s Complexity and Cannot Be Easily Fixed This new paper corroborates the many concerns demonstrating that AT’s assembly ...

Half a century ago, a quiet theorist working far from the big Western labs proposed a radical answer to one of science’s hardest questions: what, exactly, makes something alive. His framework for how ...

As I've said before, "Life is generally valued by those who are living it. Given the choice between life and death, people as a whole want as much life as they can get." In this, I firmly believe. It ...