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Why Most Planets Will Either Be Lush or Dead

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

January 9, 2017

Even Physicists Find the Multiverse Faintly Disturbing

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

January 9, 2017

How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games

The responsibilities and challenges of programmed luck.

January 9, 2017

The Deceptions of Luck

Nature makes chance, humans make luck.

January 9, 2017

Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

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

January 9, 2017

Complexity Theory Problem Strikes Back

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

January 6, 2017

The Not-So-Fine Tuning of the Universe

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

January 6, 2017

Dr. Kirk Johnson

Sant Director, National Museum of Natural History

January 5, 2017

Sean B. Carroll, PhD

Vice President for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

January 5, 2017

Dr. Chiara M. F. Mingarelli

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

January 5, 2017

Dr. Robbert Dijkgraaf

Director and Leon Levy Professor, Institute for Advanced Study

January 5, 2017