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…steps we need to take to produce organic molecules and the first steps towards life are inevitable. Whatever life processes took place to lead to humanity’s existence, as best as we understand them, could have begun when the Universe was just one-tenth the age it is now.

…ystems going, too — scientists are still sorting out how error-correcting methods keep DNA in tune. It shouldn’t be surprising to see the universe itself having a way to propagate its own stability, if the universe is, in some sense, a manifestation of life merely by being something rather than nothing.

… Santa Fe Institute is teaming up with the National Science Foundation to explore via a meeting on “Convergent Paths towards Universality in Complex Systems” at the end of May in Washington D.C.

As entropy in the universe continues to increase, heat will continue to spread until the system has reached maximum equilibrium, meaning that everything will degrade into sole pa…

…up in them to imagine anything else. Today, however, people are demanding a different kind of city. Citizens want easier, less environmentally toxic ways of moving around.

Physicists often joke that time is what we have to keep everything from happening all at once. But the real joke is on any object that’s so unfortunate to experience the Universe at light speed…

…ny neutrons. TAE’s co-founder and CEO, Michl Binderbauer, says that because of its cleaner profile, hydrogen-boron fusion is “the single shining opportunity for mankind.”

…missions by 45 percent compared with 2010 emission levels. We need to do that in the next 12 years. We would have to stop adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere completely by 2050. To do this, governments need to change land use practices, make our buildings more efficient, switch to clean energy sources, revolutionize manufacturing practices, and change the way we get around.

“I think we are in a very, very grave period for the world,” Kissinger replies. “I have conducted innumerable summit meetings, so they didn’t learn this one [Helsinki] from me.”

If mathematics does not amaze you, then you may have no soul.