Entropy Explains How Life Can Come From Randomness
Scientists are scouring the universe for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but have you ever wondered how life began on Earth? Hint: it’s all because of increasing entropy.
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Scientists are scouring the universe for evidence of extraterrestrial life, but have you ever wondered how life began on Earth? Hint: it’s all because of increasing entropy.
When I was five, I was repeatedly falling off my bike playing with barbies. Oliver here puts my five-year-old self to shame.
An American woman was arrested this week for flooding Stephen Hawking’s email with death threats, then stalking him at an astronomy festival in the Canary Islands.
The terrifying reality of flying close to the biggest and baddest planet in our solar system is starting to set in.
What sorcery is at work here? Careful, this trick—er, illusion has a second, surprising twist in it. Read More >>
Researchers think that plants can develop the best strategy to help them grow, despite having no brains.
As exciting science news goes, this is a hard sell beyond the most hardcore physics nerds. But it really does matter quite a lot.
Maybe hold off on lighting up that spliff for a moment though – these claims are to be taken with a pinch of salt.
Jake Gyllenhaal looks good after all these years, ay?
The observance is something that hasn’t been seen anywhere else in the universe.
An analysis by university researchers has failed to find a link between butter consumption and cardiovascular disease. Hallelujah.
As counterfeiters get better and better at faking expensive Swiss watches, the watchmakers themselves now have a new tool to help distinguish their genuine creations from fakes.
By mid to late century, it should be fully recovered.
If you want to see beautiful auroras, forget Alaska, Canada, and Iceland—check out Jupiter. Read More >>=
Set yourself a reminder for September 30th.
A team of British astronomers have studied the long passageways of ancient megalithic tombs and found something very interesting.
