Imagine you could watch a group of strangers act out your innermost private feelings and relationships with family members – with intense and uncanny accuracy. That’s what happened when I found myself ...

The most popular resolution solves the wrong problem. Skip self-optimization—invest in groups that actually show up when life ...

Nothing wrong with a little life improvement. Paul Coelho once said, “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” A big part of becoming better is to look ...

The origin of life is one big chemical Catch-22. It always has been. To get life started, you need a genetic molecule—something like RNA or DNA. That’s needed to store information about how to ...

If you happened to be walking through a southern college campus 30 years ago you might have seen a man sitting on a park bench apparently wiping his face in the warmth of a spring day while gazing at ...

Some philosophers think that there is a hard problem of consciousness: No matter how much scientists learns about neural processes, they can never explain why all this processing is accompanied by ...

Although biology is the study of life, even biologists don't agree on what 'life' actually is. While scientists have proposed hundreds of ways to define it, none have been widely accepted. And for the ...

In a new book, astrophysicist Mario Livio describes how the existence of life on Earth can be traced back to an RNA-based “protocell.” The following is an excerpt from Is Earth Exceptional?: The Quest ...

For decades, many students have sat in math classes wondering when they will ever use the lessons they are learning in real ...