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The ancient study of an object’s curvature is guiding mathematicians toward a new understanding of simple equations.

The Gaia hypothesis implies that once alien life takes hold, it will flourish.

It’s not the immensity or inscrutability, but that it reduces physical law to happenstance.

The responsibilities and challenges of programmed luck.

Nature makes chance, humans make luck.

Luck has a lot to do with success. We just don’t want to admit it.

The legendary graph isomorphism problem may be harder than a 2015 result seemed to suggest.

There’s more than one way to build a universe suitable for life.

Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History

Vice President for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Gravitational-wave Astrophysicist, Caltech and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory