For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time. When you purchase through ...

The big thinkers at Aperture put human life in perspective by examining its brevity relative to cosmic time.

Autobiographical memory, or your recall of events from your life, is a part and parcel of your sense of identity. The experiences you’ve had up to the present time shape your ideas about yourself now, ...